We Americans should be ashamed for believing that a class 5 hurricane and an unanticipated breech of a levee — no less any traumatic event that encompasses an entire gulf region — could be responded to faster than it was.
How many days do you think it would take for the Netherlands to respond to a burst dike immediately after a class 5 storm?
Half of our first-responders are in Iraq and the other half lost their response vehicles to a Class 5 hurricane.
These accusations are in poor taste. We all know that democracy is amazingly inefficient and takes time to respond.
The system is designed that way. We as a country are not at a constant state of readiness like Israel is.
For shame.
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let us not forget how shamingly responsible lousianna is for its own misuse of funds.
“Half of our first-responders are in Iraq”
Ok… Chris, you shouldn’t make the blame game so easy.
And Faustus, let’s not try to pretend that the Bush admin’s gutting of the Army Corp of Engineers’ budgets after it busted the Federal budget on a failing war in Iraq and its ill-timed tax-cuts had nothing to do with the levees not getting repaired… Bush starved the SELA – the most important project for protecting Louisiana from a hurricane, and now the price has been paid.
Read up a bit, mates: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313 (just for example)