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Drivingblind posted this link to a column by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. I hope it's wrong. Or at least overstated--maybe these people exaggerated because they were in the middle of the situation and were emotionally excited when they wrote it. Or maybe the situation was horrifically mismanaged from before the start and the governors are more concerned with CYA than with the governed.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006754.html

EDIT: Thanks to IrisMoonlight, here is the original account.
Yeah, I'm sad that 'socialist' seems like such an awful word to TNH, too.

Date: 2005-09-08 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com
So, highly co-ordinated incompetence?

Date: 2005-09-08 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mnarra.livejournal.com
It doesn't read. Incompetent fucks in high places get there by learning to CYA. It is not conceivable that this many people could believe they could trap refugees in these conditions on national media...and still Cover Their Ass.

Which leaves me with nothing but X-Files and Jihads.

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