A particularly scary aspect of this is that many of these troops spent time in Afghanistan and/or Iraq. They may be all too ready to shoot first and ask questions later of suspicious looking “hoodlums.”
Playing Devil’s Advocate, however, NO is in chaos, quite a few residents are armed and dangerous, and there have been no few instances of lootings, muggings, rapes, and murders. It’s a risky place to be.
According to this news story, even at the Superdome two children were reportedly raped.
Excerpt:
‘National disgrace’As US Congress was in the process of passing a $14 billion plan for emergency disaster relief, the head of New Orleans’s emergency operations, Terry Ebbert, called the response effort “a national disgrace”.
Mr Ebert said the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been in the city for three days “yet there is no command and control”.
“We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can’t bail out the city of New Orleans,” he said.
Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Liberal political philosopher and an adjunct instructor for Buena Vista University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Edgewood, KY with his wife and two children.
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