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While reading about the Gulf Coast hurricane disaster, I thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina. Meteorologists knew at least 48 hours before the storm hit the Gulf Coast that an exceptional force of nature was aimed at New Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed rich nation was unable to provide...
...magazine? The narrator and Samuel A. Weems (a retired judge from Arkansas, who died in 2003) suggested that Armenian people collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish people because they're Aryan, and today Armenian people react like Nazis. Do you think that because a few people commit terrorist acts that their entire nation and religion should be called terrorist? We don't believe that a nation is responsible for what 10 people do, but we are sure that states are responsible for their history - and here we refer to the genocide committed by the Turkish government...
...Terrorist groups have discovered a new and effective way of attracting and mobilizing new members, according to a recent article that a Harvard affiliate co-authored in the journal Nature...
Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs Ashton B. Carter emphasized the role of community building through the Internet rather than brick-and-mortar terrorist facilities...
...Disturbing Revelations Hurricane Katrina has shown the world America's Achilles' heel: its inability to deliver a quick and coordinated response to a natural disaster [Sept. 12]. Could the U.S. cope effectively with a terrorist attack involving biological or nuclear weapons? More than ever, the U.S. needs big thinking on a big scale. Philippe P. Weber B?ny-Bocage, France...