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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So table the racism thing -- so nice of you to bring it up, though -- and tell me, does Chertoff's incompetence bother you, or you feel good knowing that he's running DHS?
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It seems reasonable to me to believe that after 9/11 the office of Homeland Security was a little more focused on Terrorism than natural disasters. It was a newly created agency and it had an immediate problem to deal with, where natural disasters were not so immediate (or at least did not seem immediate). They focused on the problem at hand and put off the other stuff. Considering that we have not had one death in this country caused by Terrorism since their creaetion, I feel very comfortable with the OHS protecting me.
As for New Orleans, their focus was somewhere else, and they had to deal with incredibly corrupt and incompetant local politicians. If you don't believe the local politicians were corrupt and incompetant then you didn't visit New Orleans nor Louisian prior to 9/11.
So considering these facts, I think the arm chair quarterbacking and condescending ridicule of their conduct is unwarranted.
