The White House's Katrina Response report bugs me. Reuters reports that "the Pentagon should have a clearer role in dealing with disasters such as Hurricane Katrina."

Maybe it's just a knee-jerk reaction from a instinctual anti-military liberal, but come on, guys. It is possible for the federal government to efficiently and effectively coordinate a large interagency, interstate operation. The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise is the premier example. And the disaster that was post-Katrina FEMA says more about the wisdom of putting inexperienced political appointees in charge of such an important agency than about the need to replace said agency with the 82nd Airborne.

To put it another way, I'm afraid Elizabeth Dole's Inaugural Address will sound like this:

And I'd like to thank the men and women of America's armed forces, who fight to defend this nation from it's enemies; who fight to defend this nation from natural disasters; who fight to defend this nation from criminals and gangsters; who fight to defend our roads and trains from the enemy of a lack of maintenance...

Just saw "The Three Burials of Meliquades Estrada." Pretty good Western; I give it three stars. - UT critic

Posted by  Anonymous @ 10:14 PM

 

AND Sweden won the hockey gold medal game in Torino. Wow "Swede" it is. - Hockeytowner in UT exile

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