Chief Bones
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An IOU for an evacuation sounds a little sleazy, even for a Bush backed State Department. BUT ... it doesn't really surprise me.
Should people that went to Lebanon after reading the Travel Warning posted with the State Department describing the danger associated with Americans traveling to and working in Lebanon, be held responsible for any evacuation because of deteriorating conditions?
IF ... there IS still a means of evacuating NOT involving United States sponsored transportation, then I would definitely say yes ... however ... in this case just about every avenue of evacuation has been destroyed. This leaves ONLY those avenues of evacuation which are being supplied by the United States Government and the State Department. These evacuation assets should NOT be charged to the evacuees. The radical and rapid destructions of the evacuation infrastructure could NOT have been foreseen ... they took place too quickly.
Any plan to CYA was doomed to failure due to the rapid destruction of 'overseas' transportation.
Should people that went to Lebanon after reading the Travel Warning posted with the State Department describing the danger associated with Americans traveling to and working in Lebanon, be held responsible for any evacuation because of deteriorating conditions?
IF ... there IS still a means of evacuating NOT involving United States sponsored transportation, then I would definitely say yes ... however ... in this case just about every avenue of evacuation has been destroyed. This leaves ONLY those avenues of evacuation which are being supplied by the United States Government and the State Department. These evacuation assets should NOT be charged to the evacuees. The radical and rapid destructions of the evacuation infrastructure could NOT have been foreseen ... they took place too quickly.
Any plan to CYA was doomed to failure due to the rapid destruction of 'overseas' transportation.
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