My POINT is that you are presenting New orleans as the definitive marker of Homeland security while ignoring the vast majority of cities and states that are under control. Why is that? Why do you choose one city, only one, that is a disaster zone to denounce HS completely?
In point of fact what it says to ME is the vast number of our officials elsewhere are competant and able to rise to the expectations. The officials in new Orleans direct to Governor were not. Does this introduce a chink in HS? Absolutely. But it doesn't cast it as a failure in sum. What it does show is that we need procedures to assess those that are incompetant in advance, and to override in case of emergency which would mean more federalization which some people would have a heart attack over. But clearly had we been able to override the Governor and mayor a few days ago some of these problems could have been lessoned.
MISS isn't having these problems. Alabama isn't having these problems. Other parts of LA, that coincidentally, have high REP voting rates seem self sufficient. This tells me the most vulnerable chinks in our armor are apparently areas like New Orleans or, my inclusion, Seattle where incompetance is rampant at a political level.
NO is a big deal. The biggest deal possible in the Mississippi Valley, the most important region in the entire world.
THE POINT (as opposed to your point) is by looking at what's going on, extrapolate to a wider context: a multi-city terror strike.
Most of the larger cities would probably look a lot more like NO than they do those other smaller areas you mention.
Why isn't that obvious?
THE POINT (as opposed to your point) is by looking at what's going on, extrapolate to a wider context: a multi-city terror strike.
Most of the larger cities would probably look a lot more like NO than they do those other smaller areas you mention.
Why isn't that obvious?
How many disaster zones does it take? There really isn't room for error when 100,000 lives are at stake. If H.S. can't accomplish what it's set up to do, it needs to be re-tooled. Good Lord, I never thought I'd see the day that FR champions the failures of a bloated, ill-led bureaucracy like HS.