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New Orleans at Binary Bonsai

I find it very odd that Katrina and her destruction, even before the consequences were known, was covered as extensively as it was. Yet I can’t recall having seen a single mention of the Baghdad stampede.

I am frustrated that the rescue operations were stopped because a chopper was shot at once. Give them gunship protection; hell give each chopper and man with a fucking gun! Instead they called off the rescue operations to go and search for the people with guns? Are you nuts?! Get those people out of there! You have the largest military in the world; you can run two wars half-way around the world at the same time, how hard can it be?!

I am enraged that the US government spent so much money on going to war for false reasons, that they had to cut money for such trivial things as flood protection…Who cares about longterm effects, a quick war never killed anyone in the government. Let’s not actually look at the problems in all their real-world complexity. Complexity never got anyone reelected after all.

A lot of interesting comments from the Binary and a lot of mess. But it is always good to here of someones opinion outside of the US.

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    I have been thinking of the same issues, although I neglected to post on them because it's usually more trouble than it's worth and I don't want to get into more arguments right now.

    I've also been listening to a lot of coverage on how much this issue was documented beforehand and how little pre-hurricane help was provided. Both long-term (building up the defenses) and short term (evacuating in the days between when the warning was given and the hurricane hit) much more could have been done but wasn't. The really sad thing is that most of the victims were the poorer ones who had no means of leaving the city on short notice. Public transportation was virtually non-existent, and the national guard that usually steps in and provides much needed assistance in such efforts is off dying for a mistake.
 

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