May 17, 2009 - By New
York Times Writer Paul Krugman
One of the many mysteries during the week of Katrina was the
absence of military help. I picked up on this in the column
I wrote during that time:
Even military resources in the right place
weren’t
ordered into action. “On Wednesday,” said an editorial
in The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., “reporters listening
to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi
Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill
Road and
saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing
calisthenics. Playing basketball and performing calisthenics!”
One thing I remember about that time was the smear campaign
carried out against anyone who suggested that the federal effort
was inadequate. In particular, any suggestion that the military
wasn’t doing its part was — you guessed it — denounced
as an unpatriotic attack on the honor of our troops.
And now we know the truth. The military wasn’t doing
its part, because Donald Rumsfeld refused
to deploy troops
until almost a week after Katrina hit.
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