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...would you describe your mission with the blog...
...should have been and what statutorily FEMA's role is. Their protocol for a disaster is that locals go to the states, states go to the Federal government, and they bring resources in. When we hit that tipping point and the city flooded, it was not within FEMA's mission, capabilities or competency to go out and direct actual rescue operations. The Coast Guard came in and did it because we're trained to do that. And whatever issues there are with FEMA as an organization, I hope the public does not generalize to a larger responsibility for FEMA...
...Well, you never want to leave a mission like this, when you've been so involved for such a long time. There is a certain anxiety in disassociating ourselves. As we were starting to move people out in December, there was no small amount of tears among the staff...
Amidst widespread criticism of its failure to provide security in Haiti, the morale of the 9,000-strong United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) took another blow Saturday with the death of its Brazilian commander, 58-year-old Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar. The shooting - an unconfirmed suicide according to Haitian news radio reports - occurred early Saturday on the patio of his apartment in the luxurious mountainside Montana Hotel, where many connected with the UN mission have taken up part-time residence...
...Well, you never want to leave a mission like this, when you've been so involved for such a long time. There is a certain anxiety in disassociating ourselves. As we were starting to move people out in December, there was no small amount of tears among the staff...