This is incredibly tragic, and equally, if not moreso, tragic that this is not in the least bit surprising given that the administration's response was to belit

This is incredibly tragic, and equally, if not moreso, tragic that this is not in the least bit surprising given that the administration's response was to belittle and attack the people who were on the ground trying to save lives and crying out for help. There is palpable irony too in the administration's relentless crowing and insistence on massive increases in military funding, and yet when it comes down to brass tacks in a situation where the military could have been leveraged in an all-out, no-holds-barred operation to save the lives of thousands of American citizens, they chose not to and instead focused on pathetic, flimsy excuses ("big water, ocean water", heartless arguments about PR's financials, etc.) instead of demonstrating true leadership. These are truly dark times we are living in, and it is tremendously unfortunate that the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens bore, and continue to bear, the ultimate and final costs in the form of their lives.