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To: Constant Reader who wrote (66)	9/13/2005 10:58:46 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2253

I think it should be noted that there are thousands and thousands of local governments that can react to a major disaster. Even the tiniest hamlet has some type of plan. I agree. They can put out some small fires, keep law and order, and perhaps feed a few homeless. But when you are dealing with, earthquakes, tsunamis, major flooding, category 2,3,4 or 5 storms and throw in some types of terrorist action - that is another matter. Ideally there should be some plan in place to coordinate activities with local authorities before disaster strikes. Not quite sure what you mean here, Mary. It would be next to impossible to generate plans for every conceivable disaster in every corner of our country, natural and man-made, before it actually occurs. If you are talking about arrangements to cooperate already being in place in the event a disaster occurs, those arrangements have existed, and worked very well on the whole, for decades. If you are pointing to this one unique disaster and saying that those arrangements were not in place, I don't believe that the facts support that proposition. We still don't know enough of the facts to know what, if anything, went wrong. I agree we will never be able to micromanage these events. And we should not try to do so. Perhaps you just have to come up with a few scenarios. Predefine three scales of disaster and three types of locations. And, depending on which action plan goes into place, there are minor adjustments to be made. Lets not play the blame game. That is blame eveybody in the world. We have to blame the people that were responsible. That statement is self-contradictory, I think. Would you like to clarify it? I hereby declare that the blame game is official code word for a political POV <gggg>. The response to this disaster was not acceptable. It would not be acceptable in Sri Lanka and it certainly is not acceptable here in the United States. You can't have people go without food and water in a natural disaster and not help - especially when the equipment and resources were available to do the job. Therefore, the buck has to stop somewhere. It is no time to go into denial for some political POV. I agree that this can happen with any policatal party in in power. And, that is the point, get politics out of this without trying to cover up stuff.