Wil's Rant

It's obvious by now that Brown had limited experience in dealing with natural disasters. I'm not altogether sure that this had anything to do with the initial failures in the rescue operation. For any operation of this magnitude to be effective, their are several requirements that were not met. One of the most important is to have a clear plan of attack to the problem. Another would be to have all the lines of authority clearly understood and the approval process streamlined to allow for immediate response. The lines of communication between FEMA and all other levels of government must by clean and direct with an operations center to track and allocate resources based on availability and need. There were many failures at all levels of response to this one. This was compounded by a massive American bureaucracy that has become so unweildly as to make it inefficient and ineffective at quick response.