[B-Chan]

Which is the real New Orleans? The one that's violent and desperate?

Yes.

I admire anyone who tries to stay and fight for their city instead of running to the suburbs like a pansy. Unfortunately, when there's no city left to fight for, there's no point in staying.

Fixing New Orleans would be easy: declare martial law, patrol the streets in armored Humvees like they do in Anbar, and machine gun anybody who gives you trouble. Establish and enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew and shoot anyone you see breaking it. Divide the city into Areas of Operation with barbed wire and fortified checkpoints, then clean the crimimals and drug dealers out of each one using paid informants and strike teams. Raze everything below sea level and let it go back to nature, then build new infrastructure on raised land. Disestablish all local government and place it under the command of a general officer operating from a GHQ a la postwar Japan.

All this done well and New Orleans would be a fine place to live in a decade or two.

[padre35]

“I admire anyone who tries to stay and fight for their city instead of running to the suburbs like a pansy. Unfortunately, when there’s no city left to fight for, there’s no point in staying.

Fixing New Orleans would be easy: declare martial law, patrol the streets in armored Humvees like they do in Anbar, and machine gun anybody who gives you trouble. Establish and enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew and shoot anyone you see breaking it. Divide the city into Areas of Operation with barbed wire and fortified checkpoints, then clean the crimimals and drug dealers out of each one using paid informants and strike teams. Raze everything below sea level and let it go back to nature, then build new infrastructure on raised land. Disestablish all local government and place it under the command of a general officer operating from a GHQ a la postwar Japan.”

Yeah...that would work...personally I’m looking for Katrina only much stronger to finish that sick old man that is New Orleans off under 30+ feet of water....

Anyone who is dumb enough to build a home under 10 feet of water deserves 20 feet of water to wash away their stupidity...