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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (233173)5/19/2005 5:00:26 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574683
 
No, they haven't. They've stopped as quickly as they started.

They didn't start quickly, they happened more and more over time, and people reporting information about the insurgents is still happening.

It did not take a passive approach..........the Mayor and the Chief of Police were fighting. The Chief pulled his men at the last minute.

Pulling the men amounted to taking a passive approach.

Your assessment ignores how bad conditions were in the city before the rioting even began. And the rioting continued for nearly two weeks AFTER the National Guard were brought in to quell it.

No it doesn't ignore the fact that conditions were bad before the riots or that the riots where not put down quickly. Those factors don't change the point at all. A passive initial response allowed the situation to grow worse and last longer.

Conditions in LA were similar but not as bad as in Iraq.

The rioting neighborhoods in LA were more anarchic than Iraq as a whole is now, even if the anarchy was less durable. The problem in Iraq isn't as much random anarchic bouts of violence, but rather planned violence executed for political reasons. The violence in Iraq now is worse but it really isn't very similar to what happened in LA.

Tim
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