[PornoDoggy]

Nobody is defending the level of barbarism that some people reportedly descended to, Carrie. That does not excuse the fact that it's taken this long to begin major efforts to restore order - control the animals - and rescue the people from them.

You cannot compare the two situations very well - the attack in NY was isolated to a very small geographic area, the "attack" on NO was total. Yet even in NY, apparently, some of the heroic first defenders occupied themselves with appropriating a fire truck full of designer jeans before the building came down on their heads. I hate to think about what would have happened had the terrorists succeeded in isolating Manhattan from the rest on NY for a period of a number of days.

FEMA's response in NY was phenomenal. FEMA's response in NO has been spectacularly the opposite. It should not suprise anyone - FEMA's been run for several years by cronies without experience in disaster relief, and involved in the beauracratic shuffle related to the spawning of the Department of Homeland Security.

Again - no one is defending the hooligans, thugs, whatever you want to call them. They exist. We all know they exist. It should not have taken this long to restore the "thin blue line" between them and the rest of the folks.