Proof I’ve Been Way to Busy with Graduate School
by tdaxp ~ September 2nd, 2005
wtf?
New Orleans is gone? wtf?
And from Zen Pundit
Security comes first. And that gets established in a dicey situation in terms of mass psychology by setting a shockingly harsh example with the first looters and then using the moment to swarm the area with boots. Lots of them. Whomever held police and troops back ( or failed to give clear orders, intentionally shifting the legal responsibility to the outnumbered cop or guardsman on a flooded streetcorner) from shooting looters out of stupidity or concern for ” how things would look on TV” has a lot of deaths on their head right now.
Civilization is a fragile thing. Thanks to roaming gangs with guns made possible by governmental incompetence,we now have a situation that could unravel a lot further if we give these inchoate criminal mobs time to organize themselves. The U.S. military needs to step in now even if it means pulling a few combat and military police units from Iraq temporarily. And then massive relief aid needs to follow fast ( you can donate to the Red Cross here ). The penny-ante effort detailed by the AP is not enough.
wtf?!??
I think this is your...
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:00 am
Don't feel too bad Dan. I've only let myself go incommunicado twice in my life – the first time I came back from vacation and Iraq had invaded Kuwait. The second time Gorbachev had been overthrown and the USSR collapsed.
As a US-Soviet specialist the last one was particularly embarrassing