Louisiana's tourist industry, or at least New Orleans's, is dead. Of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
Would you ever want a family member going through what these Australians went through? Would you want it to happen to a perfect stranger?
I was going to a conference there this fall -- the organization has moved the conference (to family-friendly Orlando) and is making noises about NOLA in a subsequent year. I am going to make my vote for, the year hell freezes over.
NOLA always enjoyed being compared with Haiti. It seems like the comparison is a little too apt.
According to Army Times, soldiers took fire from looters all day. One foreign paper referred to "the insurgency." If we didn't need the port, I'd say build a wall around it and let the savages eat one another.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"NOLA always enjoyed being compared with Haiti. It seems like the comparison is a little too apt."
I must agree with you.