Word: homelands
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...country's ability to protect itself at home. Louisiana Republican Congressman Jim McCrery--working the phones with FEMA, the Army, the White House, state officials--argues that Katrina revealed how much doesn't work. "Clearly, with all the money we've spent, all the focus we have put on homeland security, we are not prepared for a disaster of this proportion whether it's induced by nature...
Soon afterward, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was demoted, subsumed by the new Department of Homeland Security. That was a mistake, says William Massey, who spent 24 years as FEMA's hurricane-program manager for the southeast U.S. before retiring last year. "The emphasis on terrorism has really hurt FEMA's efforts." When Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University (L.S.U.) Hurricane Center, suggested a year ago that the agency stockpile tents for when houses blow down, "this woman from FEMA said, 'Americans don't live in tents,'" van Heerden recalls. "I said to her, people...
Reliving a scenario earmarked for change after 9/11, officials in different agencies still couldn't communicate by radio or telephone with one another, despite generous Homeland Security grants meant to fix such problems. Others had nothing but cell phones, which predictably failed. Even the Salvation Army lost contact with 200 of its volunteers...
...TIME investigation into the case reveals how the Titan Rain attacks were uncovered, why they are considered a significant threat now under investigation by the Pentagon, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and why the U.S. government has yet to stop them...
...Middle East. There is something to be said about a comprehensive, multilateral foreign policy for the region that includes diplomacy, inspections and containment: when we had it, it worked. Our entire military could have been gainfully employed right here in the States, out of harm's way, securing our homeland at a fraction of the cost of invading Iraq. Marlene B. Feltus-Jackson New Orleans Why call the situation in Iraq a war? Iraq is an emerging democratic country struggling to govern itself after years of oppression. There are lawless insurgents, both foreign and Iraqi, that the established authorities must...