The difference is that Hurricane Katrina was a huge natural disaster that virtually wiped out a city. It was NOT a racial incident, despite the efforts of some to make it into one.
I really see no comparison. On our Gulf Coast, help arrived even before the storm. While all weren’t happy about the amount (only New Orleans was hit? – you’d think so according to the MSM) in a couple days the help was arriving in massive amounts with a lot of active duty, reserve and NG units.
In France, I understand they may start doing something about the problem soon.
Socialism ALWAYS fails -- I think the French are finally figuring that out now. One of the reasons they hate Americans so much -- pure jealousy.
Typical French delusional response. We have some French people on FR who give us the same twisted logic every time they compare us to France.
Our free market capitalist system is vastly superior to that of the French socialist system. Our economy is much more vibrant, grow much faster, create a lot of jobs, tax people less, provide higher salaries for same professions, provide much less expensive products, which allow us to have vastly more purchasing power than that of the French, and all the other world, including all of Europe and Japan. We are at 5% unemployment rate, France is a 10% unemployment and the French use much less stringent method to calculate unemployment than ours. In fact if they use our method to measure unemployment they will be around 20% unemployment. Not to count that the city suburbs where the riots occurred all over France the unemployment rate is somewhere from 30% to 50%.
Comparing our prosperous economic system to that of the miserable French one is a joke because it is like comparing a Cadillac to a Kia (no insult for Kia owners).
What is the author of this article smoking? How do a terrible natural disaster and rioting by a bunch of terrorists-in-training become even remotely similar?
The communist faggots at AP are making sure the US is also dragged into the mud with France.
Indecision, the way of the French and Socialists in total.
Make up your mind, take action, and decide!
Ironicly, the two disasters (one natural, the other man-made) have revealed the same weakness in leftist philosophy. The Democrats in NOLA and French have perpetuated the same flawed policy toward minorities (or should I say minority, since they happen to be Black in both cases), that is a welfare supported society which is for their survival.
Where there is no self respect, there is no respect for culture (for the dependent, there is not culture), no respect for private property (they have none), no respect for law and order.
"Events Force U.S., France to Face Flaws"
The writer must be on drugs. George Bush was NOT responsible for the problems after Katrina. The French government IS responsible for how people are treated in everyday life over there.
President Bush has authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a battle plan to pull France's ass out of the fire again. Facing an apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 pissed-off teenagers Mr. Bush doubts France's ability to hold off the little piss ants much longer. "Hell, if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender any day now", said Bush. Joint Chiefs head, Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 Marines to get things under control. The general admitted that 5 Marines may be overkill but he wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on scene. He also stated he was having a hard time finding even one Marine willing to help those ungrateful bastards out for a third time, but thought that he could persuade a few women Marines to do the job before they went on pregnancy leave.
President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our Marines out of there as soon as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace to make sure the Marines do not take tooth brushes, soap, razors, or deodorant with them. The less they stand out, the better.
In an unrelated matter, President Bush told reporters that he was considering a "Flu for Oil" Program to ease our country's energy problem and prevent the upcoming pandemic. Nobody had a clue as to what the hell he was talking about.