George Friedman wrote an interesting piece for STRATFOR about the strategic importance of New Orleans, its ports and the Mississippi River. He wrote:
“The ports of South Louisiana and New Orleans, which run north and south of the city, are as important today as at any point during the history of the republic. On its own merit, the Port of South Louisiana is the largest port in the United States by tonnage and the fifth-largest in the world. It exports more than 52 million tons a year, of which more than half are agricultural products — corn, soybeans and so on. A larger proportion of U.S. agriculture flows out of the port. Almost as much cargo, nearly 57 million tons, comes in through the port — including not only crude oil, but chemicals and fertilizers, coal, concrete and so on.”
As a result, he concludes: “New Orleans is not optional for the United States’ commercial infrastructure. It is a terrible place for a city to be located, but exactly the place where a city must exist. With that as a given, a city will return there because the alternatives are too devastating. The harvest is coming, and that means that the port will have to be opened soon. As in Iraq, premiums will be paid to people prepared to endure the hardships of working in New Orleans. But in the end, the city will return because it has to.”
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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New Orleans will have to be rebuilt; it’s location is just too strategic for all sorts of national interests for it not to be.Maybe Colorado could spare them a mountain (it has so many) to break up and shove under the new city so it won’t be so vulnerable next time. New Orleans deserves it’s own acropolis anyway!
The mountain idea is good. I was thinking just send Sedgwick county trash down there, compact it, and dry the area with the hot air from the city and county government officials.
Maybe it doesn’t have to be rebuilt. Archeology is founded upon cities that disappeared, from Egyptian and Babylonian to Mexican and Peruvian.History informs us: people MOVE. Anthropology informs us that most northern Europeans’ ancestors lived near the Black Sea.
I think NO will be rebuilt–this time. But what if another hurricane, and then another, hits within the next century? Maybe people will think, “We need to move to higher ground”. With modern technology, you can build a concrete-lined canal from the Gulf of Mexico to some place 100 miles upriver, protected from hurricanes. In California, the Central Valley Canal, which can be seen from outer space, and is 400 miles long, was built in the 1960’s. New Orleans was established because it marked the confluence where shallow-draft river boats could be unloaded and ocean-going ships could be loaded and launched. This is no longer relevant.
Also, ranking NO #1 by tonnage is meaningless. How about if you measured tons of DIRT moved. Try measuring it by dollars-value. NO is NOT #1.
If they really want to rebuild New orleans the right way they should prohibit the negros from returning! New Orleans minus the corrupt negro politicians, minus the corrupt cowardly affirmative action cops and minus the obese negro welfare spongers and negro criminals could be a paradise!