Abstract
While internally displaced Americans were piled into an unequipped New Orleans sports stadium, the question on everyone’s lips was: where were the Louisiana National Guard and its high-water trucks when Hurricane Katrina struck? One answer, obviously, was that at least a third of the Guard’s human and mechanical resources were deployed to Iraq. Anti-war protesters demonstrating in Washington on September 24, 2005 as a new storm battered the Gulf coast turned the question into a new slogan: “Make Levees, Not War.”
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-29-2005
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Copyright © September 29, 2005 Middle East Research & Information Project. This article first appeared in Middle East Report Online (2005), 1-4.
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Recommended Citation
Carapico, Sheila. "Forecasting Mass Destruction, from Gulf to Gulf." Middle East Report Online, September 29, 2005, 1-4. http://www.merip.org/mero/mero092905.