°Gulf War
According to the US military there is an insurgency in New Orleans. From a September 2 article in a US Army publication, titled “Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans”:
NEW ORLEANS - Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. Dozens of military trucks and up-armored Humvees left the staging area just after 11 a.m. Friday, while hundreds more troops arrived at the same staging area in the city via Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters.
“We’re here to do whatever they need us to do,” Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard’s 1345th Transportation Company. “We packed to stay as long as it takes.”
While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes.
(via BB via the beloved.)
Bloody hell. It seems like the US military writers from Iraq decided they would use some of their template articles to discuss operations in NO…
Do people in the US just not get it or what?
Glen [September 5, 2005 @ 11:57 am]
But that’s just it — they do get it. Total war means the insurgency is everywhere. And total war is the ‘template’ they are using to interpret and respond to everything.
And by “Little Somalia” Jones surely isn’t referring to Mogadishu where the US Blackhawk squadron got caned by the, uh, ‘insurgents’. Or is he?
az [September 5, 2005 @ 12:59 pm]
I can’t think of any other reference than that - and I suspect it has something to do with perpetrating the disposition that they’re going in to offer aid while any conflict over the actual terms and content of such ‘aid’ which they might encounter is perpetrated by ‘ungrateful black hordes’.
s0metim3s [September 5, 2005 @ 2:00 pm]