"Lionel" wrote in message
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Robert Morein a écrit :
"Lionel" wrote in message
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/d...20030902.shtml

- Katrina
- New-Orleans.

What a sad answer.


It takes a hurricane to show our weaknesses.
In France, all it takes is a little warm weather
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Seriously, a society is not a uniform statement of philosophy. In any
state,
many attitudes can exist, in different spheres.

This was *just* my point, Bob, only that.
Far from me the idea to accuse or to criticize an organization that I
don't know and that I don't understand.

The first time I heard from Dennis "son of bitch" Prager was on RAO,
GeoStink posted the above article.
I was just thinking that the recent tragic events in New-Orleans were a
very good answer to this presomptuous mother****er. End of story.

The failure of New Orleans was a failure of a secular bureacracy.
And yet, only secular bureacracy, either civilian or military, can deal
with
a disaster of this magnitude.
Bush is to blame for creation of an incompetent bureacracy in FEMA.

France, on the other hand, has a tradition of bureacratic excellence.
Your
public servants go to elite schools. Perhaps your bureaucrats are of more
uniformly high quality than ours. But this has disadvantages as well. In
the
U.S., our bureacracies are far more temporary. Every four or eight years,
we
demolish large parts of them. This makes possible flexible changes in
public
policy.

It is my understanding that in France, the bureacracy is far more
entrenched. They are better trained, and have been in their jobs so long,
they become irreplaceable. Thus, you can have a change of government, but
in
France, the new government can find it extremely difficult to change
actual
public policy, since the new policy must filter through the bureacracy.

Here, the temporary nature of appointments makes this less likely, with
the
notable exception of the Department of Defense. There, the jobs of
bureacracy are so complicated, the holders are immune to rapid
replacement,
resulting in the "Military-Industrial Complex", as warned by Eisenhower.

Here in France we have had our part of bureacratic mass murders : abestos,
AIDS contaminated blood...



I hope nobody died from bad spelling
and mangled syntax.