Who's to blame
I'm reading about Kansas and I'm reminded of that famous Laurel and Hardy skit -- Well this is another find mess you've gotten us into.... The Commander Guy keeps insisting that the occupation is keeping us safe from terrorism because they're fighting us there instead of following us home but how safe are we when the world's greatest terrorist -- Mother Nature -- strikes?
People wrote off the lack of emergency preparedness in the Gulf States to citizens who should have taken more personal responsibility for an expected event and perhaps they excuse the snail's pace of rebuilding efforts to the sheer scope of the devasation but that's hardly the case here. It seems to me to be singularly pathetic that Kansas can't even conduct an decent search and rescue, much less a rebuild in a town of 1500 residents because their National Guard units only have 40% of the equipment they need because the rest of it is in Iraq. Even worse, many other states, if not all, are suffering from the same shortfalls.
Our National Guard should be here at home doing the job they signed up for, rendering service on the homefront, rather than being sent thousands of miles of away for years on end in the name of imperialistic follies. Instead, when the next disaster strikes a major metro area, the taxpayer will be footing the bill for Blackwater mercenaries at ten times the price.
That is not, as the wingers like to spin it, a failure of government. That's a failure of this government's policy.
People wrote off the lack of emergency preparedness in the Gulf States to citizens who should have taken more personal responsibility for an expected event and perhaps they excuse the snail's pace of rebuilding efforts to the sheer scope of the devasation but that's hardly the case here. It seems to me to be singularly pathetic that Kansas can't even conduct an decent search and rescue, much less a rebuild in a town of 1500 residents because their National Guard units only have 40% of the equipment they need because the rest of it is in Iraq. Even worse, many other states, if not all, are suffering from the same shortfalls.
Our National Guard should be here at home doing the job they signed up for, rendering service on the homefront, rather than being sent thousands of miles of away for years on end in the name of imperialistic follies. Instead, when the next disaster strikes a major metro area, the taxpayer will be footing the bill for Blackwater mercenaries at ten times the price.
That is not, as the wingers like to spin it, a failure of government. That's a failure of this government's policy.
Labels: Bush, national security, policy, spending
posted by Libby Spencer at 9:41 PM
2 Comments:
I never thought of the Blackwater angle before but you could be right. Governors have been requesting more money to replace the equipment they've lost and Bush keeps saying it'll be coming, but it never materializes. Meanwhile, Blackwater is building compounds across the country. What better way for the Bush administration to ease them into rescue operations.
It's always money with that bunch.
I didn't know they were building compounds Kathy. That convinces me more than ever that I'm right. Bush has privatized us into a corner and his cronies are the ones that are situated to benefit from the aftermath.
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