Quote Originally Posted by Bobl View Post
Sending the National Guard to Detroit is almost, but not quite, as ridiculous as sending them to Iraq.
Perhaps, though, the City Of Detroit could find a way to get reconstruction funds to accompany the deployment, as the Iraqis did.
Reconstruction funds would make this a serious consideration. Seriously, there's no reason guardsman could not be called up to do the sort of "recovery work" [[i.e. destroying vacant and open structures) like they do after a hurricane.