Look, I've already explained to you that you don't have any idea what you are talking about. We lost 71 good Marines in Fallujah. A majority of those men died in the period after the first five days of operations. And the difference between a "base of operations" in Thailand and the massive relief effort you see underway in New Orleans doesn't really bear any comparison. Although you are clearly an expert in incompetence, I'm not sure your personal inadequacies equip you to make sweeping judgments regarding the current effort in NO.
"Although you are clearly an expert in incompetence, I'm not sure your personal inadequacies equip you to make sweeping judgments regarding the current effort in NO."
People with limited faculties for communication resort to personal attacks when frustrated. My comments on this thread have been clear, accurate and non-personal or, when attacked first, in kind. I would appreciate the same courtesy.
1. Why would I bring up Thailand and the Tsunami? Because to have a base on the ground and supplies offloading FROM SHIPS in five days means that the whole operation was planned and executed in MUCH less time than that. This article from USA today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-03-tsunami_x.htm
and this one from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38860-
indicates that carrier task force was already ferrying seaborne supplies to Bande Ache Indonesia as well. We were far far more efficient in getting supplies together, loaded, shipped, and downloaded half-way accross the world than we have been here. That was my point. And nothing you have said addresses it.
2. As for Falluja, being "secured" does not mean that there is No Fighting Whatsoever. It means that the US is in positive control of the city and the terrorists are holed up sniping or hiding. That is why it is entirely accurate to say that we had the major part of Falluja (80%) secured in five days whereas the same simply cannot be said of NO.
All of this together points to a major screw up. There is simply no getting around it.