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Home Front: WoT
Homeland Security: Who Should Call The Cavalry?
2005-09-09
"When you fly over the Gulf, it looks like a WMD exploded," Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul McHale told me this week. "Katrina very nearly approached the operational requirements of a WMD event; this was the first test of the high-end capability envisioned by the strategy."

The "strategy" is a three-month-old document called "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support." It describes the Defense Department's plans to defend the U.S. from a WMD attack or deal with the rubble and mass casualties of such an attack. (more at link)
Posted by:Captain America

#2  The US (via the constitution) has chosen a decentralized model for dealing with emergencies. Not all emergencies are as severe as Katrina. Not all local and state governments are as incompetent as New Orleans and Louisiana. There are plenty of examples from Europe, and from the former USSR which amply demonstrate the down-side of trying to handle emergencies out of a nations capital (for example Chernobyl).
Posted by: AJackson   2005-09-09 23:43  

#1  Whoever calls it should conform to Constitutional and legal requirements. If teh new media and Democrats don't understand those the DOD's fault.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom   2005-09-09 20:10  

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