Posted on 03/16/2011 8:15:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Japan's stricken nuclear power plant was abandoned for hours today, as soaring radiation forced emergency workers to flee for their lives and authorities were reduced to spraying reactors with police water cannons.
All 50 emergency workers who had been fighting to keep overheating reactors cool were this morning pulled back 500 yards from the complex as radiation levels became too dangerous.
And in an extraordinary attack, the French government accused the Japanese of losing control of the situation and hiding the full scale of the disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Stop harshing my mellow. There is always hope, like Sarkozy/2012.....oh wait....
BO has got to be pretty bad, to make Seasoned FReepers long for the halcyon days of Bill Clinton.
I don’t get all this French bashing, the French are the only western nation showing ANY leadership today.
You're absolutely correct.
And “The French” have a hotline connected directly to the Fukashima reactor, right?
I hear ya. I would take the Klintoon over this hoser any day. Sad. State. Of. Affairs.
The US has a weak, equivocating and ineffectual President whose OWN lack of substance, credentials, experience, vision or moral character have defined the current administration.
Japan is enduring the worst possible economic, humanitarian and political disaster right now… and unfortunately FOR THEM, America is NOT up to fighting form.
The America of old…the America whose voters were unselfish and wise enough to spot a counterfeit from the giddy up-I say, THIS America has forfeit it’s integrity for a radical, self-serving populist smuggled into American politics through the back door and posturing as a leader!
If “O” COULD assist or lead, he would have demonstrated THAT ability HERE and long since on less earth shattering issues than nuclear holocaust and the attending humanitarian debacle.
This country is adrift, like a ship without a rudder. Elections DO have consequences!!
There was a nuclear engineering professor from N.C. State on a local radio show yesterday and he quoted that figure.
This French claim was discussed and he did not know any more about it than is being talked about here, but did mention their expertise in the industry.
For Ch&^%$ sake, what does it mean to BE the the strongest, wealthiest national entity in the known universe, if you can't even manage an airlift....and after how many days now??
I’m no fan of W, but the contrast with how he would have handled Japan, Libya, etc., is stark. Japan is our best and most important allie in that hemisphere, and is as good as a member of the Anglosphere. W would have been on the phone with other world leaders for hours and hours. There would have been a dramatic, coordinated response.
*ally*
Also, I think before media managed to weaken our shadow president (Sarah Palin) she would have shamed and rallied our pols to take greater action.
Sure, if this were Haiti, a nation totally incapable of taking care of itself, but this is Japan, one of the richest nations on Earth, they are capable of managing. They have asked for assistance from other countries, and it has been given, there really isn't much else to be done from outside, the Japanese are going to have to solve their own problems. Sure we're there to help, but the US and the EU doesn't have to run the show.
“Pant operator”? Is that like a seat-of-your-pants operator?
CYA is demanding and all consuming. It does not leave much energy or incentive for ‘leadership’ AND it is NO substitute FOR leadership.
“O” wants to walk away from this Presidency with a halo. Nevermind that he will have accomplished NOTHING. (Actually, since he didn't enter the WH with a halo, this will be tough...hee hee)
I said it when this Bozo got elected, he is so absolutely and completely inept that he will make CARTER look like a great president.. and he is well on his way to doing that.
Here, IMO, is a pretty good take on what more should be done:
The issue is getting time-sensitive resources where they are needed.
During the Revolution, American soldiers wore French shoes, trousers, and overcoats, carried French muskets, powder and shot, used French artillery, and were supported by a French Army that outmaneuvered the British. A French fleet prevented British reinforcements to Yorktown. Not to mention the money. Lafayette, Rochambeau, deGrasse ... without'em it could have easily gone the other way. Etc. etc. Lay off the Frogs. They have had their ups and downs, and can be very silly, but when it really really counted, they bailed our collective asses and other livestock out.
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