>> If you've been watching, food and water is getting out to the people but very slowly.
Right. Just like in NOLA.
>> The place is in chaos.
Right. Like in NOLA.
>> its as if hell found a place on earth to set up shop.
Just like in NOLA.
>> The US military is not there yet and people are understandably afraid.
No excuse for this. In NOLA, you had an incompetent governor refusing to allow the military to enter. Here, there IS no government. We can do whatever we want to. Still, where are the American troops?
The point, of course, is that while the scope is much larger than in NOLA, the problems are almost identical. Not the problems of a hurricane -- but the problems of a bigger disaster like a flood or quake.
Hopefully, a few people around here will come to respect that GWB's administration acted not only quickly, but quite effectively, considering what he was faced with.
I just wish our government had been prepared to help in THIS crisis because, as AC said, people are dying by the minute.
He is, of course wrong -- there IS a reason for it. The reason is that it is very difficult to get help into a place that has no communications infrastructure, no open roads (more of a problem in NOLA than Haiti), no ability to move equipment in or out, and in both cases, no accessible equipment to move anyway. |
