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(回答先: Re: ニューオリンズの現況ニュース＝イラク以下。カートラッセルかマッドマックス以外解決不能 投稿者 H2 日時 2005 年 9 月 03 日 07:22:08)
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/im20050902AS2M0202S02092005.html
米政権、ハリケーン対策で正念場・対応遅れに不満噴出
【ワシントン＝秋田浩之】大型ハリケーン「カトリーナ」による混乱が拡大するにつれ、ブッシュ米政権の支援体制に批判が強まってきた。洪水を逃れながら支援の遅れで命を落とす市民が出始め、不満が噴出。被災地のニューオーリンズでは暴動が起きかねない状況になっている。危機管理を最も重視してきた米政権にとって大きな正念場だ。
ブッシュ大統領は2日朝、被災地の1つである南部アラバマ州に入った。その後、ミシシッピ州に移り、被害者らを慰問。最も深刻な打撃を受け、町の約80％が冠水したニューオーリンズについては上空から視察する。大統領は「あらゆる手段を講じると被災地のみなさんに約束する」と述べて支援に総力を挙げると述べた。
しかし連邦政府の支援の窓口である米連邦緊急事態管理局（ＦＥＭＡ）は混乱を極めた。ブラウン局長自らが「現場と連絡が取れず何が起きているかわからなかった」と釈明するように、ハリケーンで通信手段が寸断されることを予想しながら、政府内の代替連絡手段は確保していなかった。
ブッシュ大統領が内政の最優先課題と位置づけてきたテロ被害への対応能力に疑問を投げかける専門家も出始めた。ニューオーリンズ市の当局者は「国家的な恥」とＦＥＭＡを糾弾。普段は政権寄りの保守系紙ワシントン・タイムズも大統領に批判的だ。
深刻な食糧・水不足に苦しむ被災地では、支援の遅れにいら立ちが充満している。ＡＰ通信などによると、現地では「イラクに州兵を送っていなければもっと対応できた」「なぜ堤防は持ちこたえられなかったのか」といった声が噴出。政権が2001年から今年にかけ、ニューオーリンズの治水予算を4割削ったことも一因とする“人災論”も出始めた。
大統領は救援活動を加速するため、米軍も総動員する構えだ。ブッシュ大統領は原子力空母ハリー・トルーマンを派遣。約1000人を収容できる病院船も来週中に現地に到着する。ルイジアナ州などでは略奪や暴力行為も広がっており、各地から招集した州兵約3万人の一部は治安維持に当たらせる。 (07:56)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.fema.brown/
FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility
Brown pleased with effort: 'Things are going relatively well'
Thursday, September 1, 2005; Posted: 11:41 p.m. EDT (03:41 GMT)
(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.
Michael Brown also agreed with other public officials that the death toll in the city could reach into the thousands.
"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.
"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.
"And to find people still there is just heart-wrenching to me because, you know, the mayor did everything he could to get them out of there.
"So, we've got to figure out some way to convince people that whenever warnings go out it's for their own good," Brown said. "Now, I don't want to second guess why they did that. My job now is to get relief to them."
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have both predicted the death toll could be in the thousands.
Nagin issued a "desperate SOS" Thursday as violence disrupted efforts to rescue people still trapped in the flooded city and evacuate thousands of displaced residents living amid corpses and human waste. (Full story)
Residents expressed growing frustration with the disorder evident on the streets, raising questions about the coordination and timeliness of relief efforts. (See video on the desperate conditions -- 4:36 )
◎：Sniper fire prevented Charity Hospital from evacuating its patients Thursday. The hospital has no electricity or water, food consists of a few cans of vegetables, and the patients had to be moved to upper floors because of looters. (Full story) (See video of a city sinking in chaos -- 2:54)
Brown was upbeat in his assessment of the relief effort so far, ticking off a list of accomplishments: more than 30,000 National Guard troops will be in the city within three days, the hospitals are being evacuated and search and rescue missions are continuing. (See video of National Guard efforts to rein in violence -- 3:14)
"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans -- virtually a city that has been destroyed -- that things are going relatively well," Brown said.
Nevertheless, he said he could "empathize with those in miserable conditions."
Asked later on CNN how he could blame the victims, many of whom could not flee the storm because they had no transportation or were too frail to evacuate on their own, Brown said he was not blaming anyone.
"Now is not the time to be blaming," Brown said. "Now is the time to recognize that whether they chose to evacuate or chose not to evacuate, we have to help them."
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was a longtime New Orleans mayor, said there was "plenty of blame to go around," citing underinvestement by federal authorities over many years "despite pleas and warnings by officials."
Earlier on CNN, Brown was asked why authorities had not prepared for just such a catastrophe -- given that the levees were designed to withstand only a Category 3 hurricane and Katrina was stronger than that.
"Government officials and engineers will debate that and figure that out," he replied. "Right now, I'm trying to focus on saving lives. I think we should have that debate, but at an appropriate time."
Brown said Katrina was unlike other hurricanes in which the magnitude of the disaster typically subsides after the initial blow. That was not the case Monday, when the Category 4 storm blew ashore.
"What we had in New Orleans is a growing disaster: The hurricane hit, that was one disaster; then the levees broke, that was another disaster; then the floods came; that became a third disaster."
Brown said he had to be careful about getting rescue teams to the site earlier.
"Otherwise, we would have faced an even higher death toll," he said.
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