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Originally Posted by Les Grossman
Considering how close we are to Haiti, I feel our response time was too slow. We should have had help there within 12 hours tops. In an event such as this, HOURS and sometimes minutes make the difference between life and death.
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We did have people there with in 24/hrs.. However you can't pick up a naval vessel and move it instantly. We also can't just send in aircraft when there was no functioning airport. Our Naval vessels were in route in under 24/hrs but they don't just show up instantly.
US special forces went in by the second day and were setting up a temporary control tower, after that was done planes started moving things in. (don't forget this happened late in the day, meaning nothing could be sent in till the second day anyway)
Not to mention Hatti is it's own country, we can't just start rolling in troops with out their permission, or until it become apparent that their own govt is in cable of requesting the help. I believe it was a mix of the two that happened.
This wasn't like a Hurricane that people were prepared to send in aid right away, this was a normal day in Hatti then 5 mins later it's destroyed.
The time it took us to get troops into Hatti and get things moving, was actually a bit faster than what it took under Bush with Katrina, which shows how incompetent the Bush admin was. What happened under Bush should have been criminal TBH.