The most interesting news clips from yesterday (?) was when the various reporters (male and female) were asking Guardsmen if they were ready to enforce martial law in the New Orleans area.
My God, how stupid are these college graduates and experienced reporters?
Some of the Guardsmen they were talking to had done tours in Iraq and had been shot at.
Did the reporters, in their stupidity, think that Guardsmen were going to be scared of the street hoods? Did they thin k they would have nightmares when it became necessary to enforce the full extent of martial law?
It is an ugly thing that New Orleans had become long before Katrina. All the hurricane did was to remove the few remaining restraints on a learned behavior pattern - “I can do what I want when I want and no one is going to do anything about it because….”
Well, the Guardsmen were never part of that behavior pattern, like the New Orleans Police Department and its associated political machine. When they give an order it had better be obeyed. And if a street ganger thinks a shot or burst will slow down combat proven Guardsmen…..
pretty good analysis on FR
If they would have put in place and ENFORCED this from the git go, then only a few would need to be shot. Now that number is much larger.
Dead Center Perfect.
Most of the reporters, similarly, would look with askance at the killing of any of their fellow Democrats.
It's not that all of the looters are Democrats but they voted Kerry/Edwards (or someone else voted in their name).