CNN has learned 11 stockpiles of fire-and-rescue equipment strategically placed around the country to be used in the event of a catastrophe still have not been pressed into service in New Orleans, 5 days after hurricane Katrina...
What the hell?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The rosy possibility is to avoid a repeat of the television scene in Iraq of young men hoarding supplies. You do what helps the most people the most equally, and that wouldn't be it. But you also don't want to 'accidentally' suggest that 'Black people riot'. So you announce it to the public in a way that doesn't suggest there will be uncontrollable disorder if you bring the supplies in. Actually you don't even know if that would happen, you just consider the risk of it to great.
ReplyDeleteTiming is everything, you could say.
Having too few troops and no plan is now Bush's own particular idiom.
ReplyDeleteHe should now make his exit.