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How do you know that "the government" is confused?
It probably involves a lot of planning and logistics to send the military into a disaster area.
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The point is, we've known for so long, that New Orleans is a trouble spot. If a major hurricane is headed in that direction, relief should have been in place before hand. It shoudn't have taken as many days as it did, and they've admitted it themselves.
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And this "illusion of safety" is shattered because it takes a hurricane to make you realise that you're never safe from mother nature?
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It's what happens after such a disaster, that I expect a higher level of competence and protection. The president doesn't even know what the hell's going on, though that's pretty much expected these days. After what happened on 9/11, you'd expect them to be better prepared for a large scale disaster, but it doesn't look like they've learned anything.
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All you can do is try to evacuate as many people as possible, and if some people don't leave of their own accord well that's their problem isn't it? I don't see why the government should anticipate and have a contingency plan for stubborn morons. The people they'd be going in to help would be people who had the option of leaving but didn't.
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There were a lot of people that, for whatever reason were unable to evacuate (the poor, the ill, etc.). It does however suck that there were those stubborn morons, with the means to leave, yet did not. You have to realise that a lot of these people have children, who are not guilty of anything, they don't deserve to be left behind to die.