It\’s A Quagmire!
March 9th, 2009 by 
Kevin
Finally we\’re pulling out.
Three and a half years later, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out this weekend, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous.
Residents long distrustful of the city\’s police force are worried they will have to fend for themselves.
\”One of the biggest things we did was keep those places safe so people could rebuild,\” said Sgt. Wayne Lewis, who has been patrolling the streets since January 2007. \”People would put the things to rebuild in their houses and thieves would come along and take them right out again. We stopped a lot of that.\”
No this isn\’t Baghdad. No it\’s not Kabul. No it\’s not even a foreign nation. It\’s New Orleans. It took three and a half YEARS for us to rebuild the city to the point that we\’re comfortable pulling out our troops. This is a city already familiar with democracy (at least a corrupt form of it). This is a city that already possessed semi-modern infrastructure. This is a city that possessed at least a basic literacy rate.
Yet it still took three and a half years to rebuild a CITY. We\’re currently in a hurry to pull out of a COUNTRY after six years.
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