It has nothing to do with this. I'm tired of people saying Bush needs to do more when he can't. It's exhaustion from trying to present facts to those who don't want to hear them.
The very simple point is that someone, whoever it is that has the authority, (doesn't someone?) needs to give a 'shoot to kill' order.
Neither the mayor nor the govenor has had any sense or cahones up to this point. What I'd LIKE is to send a silent, elite squad in there to hunt the streets and clean it up.
I didn't say that he needed to do more I simply agreed with another poster who said that his rhetoric is useless unless it is backed up with action. The point being that, as of last night when I posted my remarks, it wasn't being backed up; either by action or by some clear order naming the consequences for lawlessness.
Neither the mayor nor the govenor has had any sense or cahones up to this point.
A point I also made. So, if the chief exec. of the city and the chief exec. of the state have both failed to meet the challenge who is left to take command of the situation? You seem to be saying that the President is impotent in that regard.
What I'd LIKE is to send a silent, elite squad in there to hunt the streets and clean it up.
I also suggested something quite similar to that. So, who has the authority to order that? Mayors and Governors don't have the authority to order the military into action and I don't think the Nat. Guard has elite squads of the kind you are suggesting.
FWIW I do know that it is being reported that the National Guard is 'pouring' (as the media phrase it) into NO this morning. I wonder what their ROEs are? Trying to chase down goblins in this swamp city to arrest and detain them is going to be nearly impossible. Too many places to hide, too hard to get around. A few dead goblins would produce a very quick silence to 'the troubles.'