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Originally Posted by foundit66 I agree with this assessment.
I also feel compelled to add that if you replace "Nagin" with "Brown" in your above comments, and replace "work for Cox Cable Company" with "being a horse judge", you'll get an equally true assessment of Brown's failure...
Both made serious mistakes which cost a lot of people their lives... | Neither of them should have been in the position they were in. But Brown is a lawyer, and had actually been involved in other "civic" organizations and leadership. | As a former military officer, let me tell you that there is a HUGE difference inbetween leading a "civic" organization, and leading an organization where people die if you make a mistake.
And you'll note who they got as the replacement for Brown when he stepped down...
Seriously. It doesn't take much to "lead" a group when your style of leadership centers around being concerned about how much traffic time you have to spend in preps for the evening meal.
(Do you need me to link you to that story?
Or can we just agree that Brown was an idiot. Thorough idiot.
And that trying to claim he had "leadership" experience doesn't really address the issue of whether or not he had what it takes to be a GOOD leader...)
My time in the Navy showed me "leaders" who people followed because they wanted to follow, and "leaders" who had people follow them out of morbid curiousity. From the looks of things, Brown was clearly the latter... Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson He SHOULD have been better equipped than he was. | And whose fault is that?
Whose fault is it that he wasn't better equipped? Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson In addition, I personally believe that ALL of FEMA's post-9/11 energies were spent on terrorist attack response, and none of it was spent on natural disaster response. That was obvious enough. | Gee. And who directed THAT focus? Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson But Brown's bungling did NOT directly relate to deaths in New Orleans, as did Nagin's. | Yes. It did.
If you think people didn't die in waiting to be rescued, then you are seriously unaware of what happened after Katrina hit. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson As per the traffic jams... Why did they NOT open the in-bound lanes of the interstate for out-going traffic from New Orleans? STUPID! | Don't know... Incompetence?
But then again, I think we have thoroughly agreed on that... |