I must point out to israel67 that New Orleans is ...*ahem*... French.The Annoyed Man wrote:Most certainly not. You have to understand the local political landscape of New Orleans going into the Katrina event to understand why things turned out the way they did. Other U.S. cities have suffered major devastation from hurricanes prior to Katrina, and none of them, to the best of my recall, ever had the sociopolitical fallout that happened with Katrina. Other American cities have experienced near total devastation, and yet none of them ever experienced the complete breakdown of political leadership and social order as did New Orleans.israel67 wrote:And most of all ... if a disaster such as Katrina befell the US on a wider scale ... would y'all just stand there and let the police take your weapons off you, if the President ordered it?
