Comments Posted By Syl
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DANCING ON THE GRAVES OF BLACK PEOPLE
Idealistic liberals and conservatives have to adjust their conclusions as more and more facts are coming to light. There was no federal failure. What we knew as we were watching the tv coverage is not the same thing we know now.
The post from Alex Wall illustrates how someone can come to conclusions based on initial 'facts' and then refuse to adjust when the 'facts' are clarified as more information comes out.
Alex cites DHS as the reason the Red Cross was barred from NOLA. It was the STATE DHS that did so. The water trucks were needed more urgently elsewhere and were redirected. Wal-Mart itself stated such.
There is a Fog of War which is equally applicable to a disaster. Especially when communications are disrupted. Initial reports have no context which only appears later.
Bush has nothing to aplogize for. Except maybe his head wasn't tilted to the proper degree.
It's time for a total reassessment. We know why the superdome sufferers suffered and we also know that the convention center was on nobody's radar until Wednesday night when the media picked up on it. The convention center was not listed in any of the disaster plans that the locals work from.
So it is no surprise that Brown and Chertoff didn't know of the problems there until Thursday. The local agencies didn't know of it either.
We know that now, we did not know it then.
So what does one do when the basis for initial conclusions changes? Change the conclusions.
Anybody who doesn't adjust their thinking as new information becomes available is only a hack. And deserves all the criticism thrown at them.
Comment Posted By Syl On 12.09.2005 @ 06:39
