Via the American Spectator.
Ray Mabus long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan. Well, okay, but... why the Secretary of the Navy?Isnt the Navy important enough? If Mabs is to do that, it should be his only job, and somebody else should be Sec-Navy. Frankly, this is an outrage. And what does the Navy have to do with Gulf Coast shore restoration anyway?!?!?!?!?!?!?They said it better than I could. This is just plain sad. I have recently learned that the Netherlands, and several other European countries offered technology to clean up the oil spill and they got no response from our government!
But a bigger mystery to me is why select the Secretary of the Navy to perform this mission? Maybe because the President finally understands that is the only competent section of the US government. Maybe because he looked at the heads of his other agencies and realized that they're not up to the job.
Either way, the Secretary of the Navy has personnel in harms way.
He does not need this additional duty.
Prestige oil spill, 2002, NW Spain [+]. Part of the denial tactics of the Spanish government [back then, neocon] included refusing the oil containment barriers built by a native of the zone [historically, their party's], resident of the US and one of the prime shakers in this niche. Such barriers were to be provided at manufacture cost. Those same tactics also implied the loss of any claim to the disaster fund --ended up being claimed by, among others, Germany--. And so on [*].
ReplyDeleteOne among many. And people wonder why he lost the election.
Ferran, BCN.
[+] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_oil_spill Although in no way captures the rage in the country back then at the delay and denial tactics. Enough so that many government leaning media changed sides, more or less permanently.
[*] For another example, the king had to step in as CiC to get the army working on that, after several days of volunteers getting there from around the country. To my memory, the second time he's used that, first being to hold the "23-F" putsch in the early 80s.
ya know what Ferran. I sometimes (admittedly) paint with too broad a brush.
ReplyDeleteWe had several nations around the world ready to provide us with material that we didn't have and it wasn't accepted?????
THAT's INSANE!
THAT's CRAZY!
I see a similar outcome. Grand thought is one thing but proper oversight of disasters is needed.