"Military wary of disaster role"

[jody]

Military wary of disaster role

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Today, any move to amend Posse Comitatus, say military analysts, would represent not only a move in the wrong direction, but also a misapprehension of the situation.

For one, it is unnecessary, they say. The active-duty military can already support disaster relief in a variety of ways that are in accord with Posse Comitatus - providing logistics and humanitarian aid, for example, as has happened in the Gulf Coast region. For law enforcement, emergency officials have the National Guard - and if one state's Guard is depleted by overseas deployments, it can ask for help from other states through their network of Emergency Management Assistance Compacts.
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We need to aggressively oppose changing the Posse Comitatus Act.

If we have enough active-duty military to take over domestic law enforcement, Bush should send them to Iraq and return National Guard units to their states. Governors could then use their Guard units to augment law enforcement when needed.