Re: [DMCForum] Katrina Thread

[Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, The reorg post 9/11 puts FEMA under the
department of homeland security.  So even though a
natural disaster is not terrorism, it should have been
handled in the same manor.



--- content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm a late comer to this thread, but:
> 
> Isn't it possible the federal government was simply
> more razzle
> dazzled by the new phenomenon of international
> terrorism than the old
> drudgery of natural disasters, allowed itself to
> become distracted,
> and now has been caught unprepared for the emergency
> at hand? No
> nefariousness, but simply planning for contingency A
> when it needs to
> respond to contingency B (which I guess constitutes
> incompetence and
> negligence).
> 
> It is our national shame that so many people are
> still suffering from
> a government that has been myopically preparing for
> only one threat.
> 
> A particularly stunning indictment will be if more
> people died from
> Katrina than 9/11 (which now stands at well less
> than 3,000 if memory
> serves -- actually a failure on the terrorists' part
> since I'm sure
> they anticipated double digit thousand fatalities).
> 
> I do wonder: what if New Orleans had been wiped out
> by a terrorist
> act? Would the national government have responded
> any differently?
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
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