Re: Federal Response to Katrina FASTER than to Andrew, Hugo & Others
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...the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history.
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Its not the operation or the guys on the ground itself that is criticized, it is the leadership.
After this hurricane, we needed a leader to cut corners and make things happen any way he could. People are dying lets cut through some red tape, ditch some SOPs. Leaders who could see that the local gov was not doing anything right because its capabilities were already devastated and [i[its[/i] leaders were ineffective. Instead we had one who continued his vacation with photo ops for a few more days. And leaders (Bush, Brown) who showed striking ignorance of the situation days after the fact. Many American had learned more after an hour of watching cable news.
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