Carefully and slowly read that sentence again. Do you understand exactly what you said? You're basically complaining that nobody predicted that a hurricane-ravaged American city could turn into a war zone. I wouldn't have predicted it. Would you have?
Tell you what, though -- I think the disaster responses nationwide are going to be updated to account for this lesson.
I would think it is reasonable to assume that when a major city is supposed to be completely evacuated, some military contingent needs to be mobilized at the same time to prevent looting.
Indeed I do understand. If you search the hurricane threads over the weekend before the hurricane hit, many were predicting lawlessness among whoever survived the predicted flooding. And we didn't have any great insight, it is predictable in a disaster of this scale. Estimate are that 400-500,000 chose to ride out this storm in the New Orleans area.
You're basically complaining that nobody predicted that a hurricane-ravaged American city could turn into a war zone. I wouldn't have predicted it. Would you have?
Yes I would have predicted this, and so should have the authorities.
Right, who would have predicted a war zone? It takes time to get armies and their logistical support in place. The only way this could have had a fast response would have been to have had forward operating military bases already in place, stocked with personell, guns, food, ammo. Criticism of agencies now is just venting frustration.