Imagine

If this were an effort to kill the people of New Orleans and destroy the city, the military would have accomplished the task quickly and efficiently.

There would have been ships lining the orizon, landing craft would have been putting in on beaches by the hundreds, heavily equipped troops would flood in by the tens of thousands, helicopters and support planes would fill the sky. Hundreds of inflatable "swift boats" would be dropped and delivered, thousands upon thousands of gallons of gas, food, and water would be immediately moved on shore and made available. Billions of dollars would be spent without a second thought.

So why, when the federal government was tasked with SAVING the lives of primarily poor people, was the response so pathetic, weak, and half-assed?

Why did the government feel that it could show up with a few Red Cross trucks and some coast guard helicopters and save hundreds of thousands of people?

And what does it say, when if the mission is death and destruction, our government is amazingly efficient, sparing no resources and spending an unlimited amount of money, yet when it comes to saving it's own people, the effort is so pathetic as to be immoral?

I might also note, as proven in Billmon's post linked in a post below, that FEMAs response was vastly more intense when Jeb Bush's state was in the sites of hurricanes, complete with massive staging before the storm.