CNN.com - Are we prepared? - Sep 14, 2005
CNN.com - Are we prepared? - Sep 14, 2005: "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- The water is receding, leaving sewage, petroleum, mold, mildew and rotting bodies.
Life is slowly getting better -- too slowly for most.
The questions, like the stench, will linger. This column isn't about the obvious ones: Who is to blame, what should have been done.
The next question has to be -- is the United States ready for a terror attack?
Imagine if this had been a dirty bomb in a major city. A chemical attack. Or let's say well-placed explosives blew up the New Orleans levees.
The obvious answer is no, we are not ready for a terror attack. Not even close.
The 9/11 attacks were horrific enough, but they were in a relatively small geographic area. They didn't displace an entire city, leaving it virtually uninhabitable, with hundreds of thousands of people in a limbo of evacuation."
Life is slowly getting better -- too slowly for most.
The questions, like the stench, will linger. This column isn't about the obvious ones: Who is to blame, what should have been done.
The next question has to be -- is the United States ready for a terror attack?
Imagine if this had been a dirty bomb in a major city. A chemical attack. Or let's say well-placed explosives blew up the New Orleans levees.
The obvious answer is no, we are not ready for a terror attack. Not even close.
The 9/11 attacks were horrific enough, but they were in a relatively small geographic area. They didn't displace an entire city, leaving it virtually uninhabitable, with hundreds of thousands of people in a limbo of evacuation."
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