Originally Posted by DarkCircus

People aren't that quick to throw away history. Look at the catastrophic events in New York, San Fran, Los Angeles. Look at Florida, who gets hit with more Hurricaines than Louisiana. Take into consideration all the other places that were devastated by Katrina. Should we abandon the gulf Coast? Leave Los Angeles behind? Forget about New York, or say "I told you so" if (god forbid) anything else terrible ever happens to it?

New Orleans, in case you need a lesson of the country, is the seat of the mississippi river, and the reason that the United states is what it is today. Without control of it for shipping, we wouldn't have been able to ward off the brittish, or stop the spanish from swallowing up a HUGE portion of what is the west coast today. It's purchase doubled the size of the country, and gave a shipping route from north to south that neither the french or the brittish

Let's also take into consideration that the levee's, which were built shabbily by the Army Corps of engineers, failed. Had they been built correctly the first time, the damage would have been minimal. Had our government responded properly it would have been less of a debacle.

There are some people in life who sit in their armchairs and cheer on destruction, while others that hope for the best. It's easy to cheer on destruction when you've got no idea what you'd be losing.