"Yep. That should have solved the problem right there. It should be a piece of cake to solve all the problems of one of the largest cities in America being wiped out, and 90,000 square miles of populated shoreline erased from the map. I just can't understand why 4 days into the greatest natural disaster in this nation's history we don't have federal employees planting rose bushes along city streets"
Nice sarcasm, but completely off base. We got aid to thailand faster than this. Inexcusable.
Particularly inexcusable because, as I just posted to another freeper, we have in-depth training for these kinds of events in this country.
Did you know that provisions have been being flown into the New Orleans airport since Tuesday? DId you know that the aircraft flying them in have been flying out stranded citizens?
The reason I ask is that I consider myself a pretty informed guy and I had no idea this was happening until this evening. So naturally my question is what else positive is going on that nobody is telling me about.
Not even close. Remember how Bush was taking heat then for waiting 4 or 5 days before responding? Our ships didn't arrive offshore until 2 weeks after.
"We got aid to thailand faster than this. Inexcusable."
what is your source for this comparison?
Nice sarcasm, but completely off base. We got aid to thailand faster than this. Inexcusable.
Uh, actually, no we didn't.
It took six days alone for elements of Seventh Fleet to get to the Bay of Bengal. I understand your frustration with the fact that we have not been able to magically move 200,000 people from point a to point b, but road movement of the equivalent of two divisions takes time.
Be Seeing You,
Chris