In 2005, Hurricane Katrina wiped out
New Orleans. “W” was roundly criticized, rightly IMHO: he could
have done and should have done much, much more. Our current CIC is
resembling “W” more and more by the day, and this extends beyond
a flaccid Middle East Policy. OK, so here is my question: which of
the following ameliorative actions has “O” taken since “Sandy”
moved on?
FOOD
Contacting Bill Wattenburg and PowerBar
of Berkeley, load up a C5A with those god-awful-nutrition-bars, fly
over Manhattan, and kick food out the back of the airplane?
WATER
Contact Adolph Coors, get the
bottling/canning plants in Gulden, Colorado to pack clean drinking
water, pack them onto wooden pallets, and transport them via military
heavy lift helicopters to places that have no water.
MEDICINE
Reassigned Air Force One and Two to
carry critical medical supplies, and land them at JFK and La Guardia
and other airports that service hospitals that are now cut-off from
their normal logistical systems.
DIAPERS
Contact the CEO of Kimberly-Clark, and
arrange to have diapers air-lifted to hospitals that have run out?
GASOLINE
Eat crow, and call
Cheney/Rumsfeld/Halliburton, and have portable diesel generators and
tankers filled with gasoline moved to places that have lines that run
several hours. Likewise, assign military refueling tankers to supply
civilian airports that are in danger of running out of aviation fuel.
WHITE HOUSE FIELD OFFICE
Park his Frank-Marshall-Davis-rear-end
in Eastern Manhattan, instruct his cabinet to do likewise, have
emergency cabinet meetings, and re-direct the logistical tale that
normal follows thereof to supply Manhattanites?
YES, GENERAL
Assign a military officer of flag-rank, and temporarily redirect resources to civilian aid. Our armed forces have a sophisticated, integrated quartermaster system to supply our troops with everything from clean socks to freshly baked bread.
ROLLING THUNDER
Ask these good folks to load critical supplies on the back of their choppers, and deliver critical supplies to places where ordinary vehicles, even military ones, cannot go?
YES, GENERAL
Assign a military officer of flag-rank, and temporarily redirect resources to civilian aid. Our armed forces have a sophisticated, integrated quartermaster system to supply our troops with everything from clean socks to freshly baked bread.
ROLLING THUNDER
Ask these good folks to load critical supplies on the back of their choppers, and deliver critical supplies to places where ordinary vehicles, even military ones, cannot go?
SORRY, STATEN ISLAND ALSO
Forgive me, I was born and raised in a white, middle-class suburb in Southern California. I am fatally ignorant of local NY geography. I was unaware that Staten Island, like Manhattan, is geographically isolated connected to the mainland via a few connectors.
ARE YOU GOING TO PULL [your thing] FOR
OBAMA?
Before you do, I defy you to take score
of what I list above. And, no, doing a photo-op with
Krispy-Kreme-Christie with his hand on the guv's shoulder with a
concerned look on his face, does NOT count as “doing something”.
If this sounds like the movie “ground hog day”, I remind you of
“O's” similar response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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