Posted on 09/01/2005 2:34:49 AM PDT by Siobhan
Katrina is a huge and historic story. The human cost, the financial cost, the rendering uninhabitable of a great and fabled American city--all of it amazing. A quick look at the good, the bad, and the let's-shoot-them-now.
The governors. Political leadership in times of crisis is a delicate thing. You have to be frank about the fix you're in without being demoralizing. You have to seem confident without seeming out of touch with reality. You have to be human without indulging all your very human emotions. Rudy Giuliani set the modern standard on 9/11, and in a way that is not remarked upon. All his public statements were brilliantly specific. He told you exactly what resources were on their way to do what and where and why; he told you the No. 4 subway had been diverted west and then south until 11 a.m. Saturday; he told exactly which blocks were closed off and for how long; he told you New York would come back and then he told you why and how. His leadership was a masterpiece of specificity. That he had the facts at his command left people feeling: Thank God, someone's in charge, I can take care of me while he takes care of the city. That's what people want in a time of crisis.
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If anybody tried this kind of crap in Dodge, the marshal and/or armed citizens would have shot him dead in an instant.
May I ask, what does that have to do with shooting at looters?
I'll repost it here tomorrow for the historically impaired. Every single household in America should have a basic emergency kit.
Hell, those people in that dome were told to bring their own supplies yet it appears almost none of them did.
It's mind boggling.
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