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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (10867)	9/1/2005 6:59:47 PM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (3) of 14464

The most powerful country on the planet is unable to airlift 25,000 people 5 miles to safety. In addition airlift in water and food. It's safe "5 miles"... 25 miles from the Dome? With these people running the show? I believe these officials are allergic to tents. In any case there are quite a few things that a powerful country can't do when you run it so as to reduce authority and personnel funding for a domestic military while keeping most of your active forces on foreign soil. Hannibal sat around Italy for years before the Romans figured out how to spend their money to "persuade" him to leave. I'm now listening to a man "inside" the N.O. Convention Center. Based on what he's saying... compared to what the Gov and FEMA folks are saying... it sounds like there's not only been a failure to plan for a levee breach (with or without a hurricane) but there's been a complete failure to foresee the limit of human endurance or the reaction that would come from a majority black and poor population under these circumstances. But at this point I don't see the Mayor, who is black albeit presumably not poor, as being without sin in this tragedy. He's apparently as allergic to the streets of N.O. as anyone in DC. Perhaps more so. Now I'm hearing that the people in Mississippi are complaining about the "slow delivery" of relief supplies too. Bush is lucky he's in his 2nd term. These "hearings" are going to last a very very long time. But I wouldn't put much stock in what he could or could not foresee. The whole point of FEMA and local disaster programs is to have a plan for the "unforeseen." In this case the "plan" sucked and it's implementation leaves much to be desired. But that's the what makes "disasters" catastrophic. I hope they stay over the holiday weekend but I doubt it. I think that's going to depend on the Mayor and the conversations I expect he's having with the Congressional Black Caucus. If he's "in the loop" and supporting FEMA and his Republican governor... then yeah. They'll vote some money and go home. But if he's "in revolt?" Oh yeah... they'll stay over the weekend all right. ...They may not leave until the National Guard comes and hauls them away. Maybe we'll finally pull our troops out of Europe and Korea. I think it's about time. I wouldn't worry about the next "big" hurricane though. That would be too easy now. But a big quake/volcano/tsunami in Seattle? ...That's an entirely different matter. <g> 0\|0

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