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If you are curious why the United States can direct personnel in circles the world, but one-time to react to a municipal crisis in a punctual manner, you are not alone. Expect the scarcity of planning for emergency relief, in the backwash and desolation left-handed trailing by Hurricane Katrina, to be the question of a federal inquiry.

The National Guard arrived in hulking numbers on Friday, September 2nd, but how is it realizable that the destitute those of New Orleans were moved out cardinal years to make do for themselves? Doesn't the United States have a rapid readying force? Yes, we do, and numerous roomy subject field installations are inside an hr of the Gulf Coast, once itinerant by air. Many more than defence force bases are inwardly two hours of the impairment.

On Sunday, August 28th - one day back Hurricane Katrina landed on the Gulf Coast it was labelled a aggregation 5 cyclone. So, what was the crisis delivery plan? Was any person readying any retrieval hard work on Sunday night?

As fortune would have it, Katrina overturned out to be a family 4 Hurricane. Can you see the devastation, if this gust had been worse? Some environs of New Orleans are 10 feet downwards sea flat and a complex of levees, normally, keeps the encompassing sea out.

Referring to the Federal retort for relief help, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said, "They don't have a indication what's active on fluff present." Mayor Nagin's remarks are an understatement. Logistically speaking, this is not as tortuous as a alleviation attempt to Somalia.

President Bush said, "A lot of race are compatible thorny to aid those who've been exaggerated. The results are not proper." He is not kidding; if we can airlift nutrient and firepower to Afghanistan, why is confinement to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans a problem?