1.  The Katrina death toll was about 1800. So it in no way compares to the destruction in Haiti.<p>2.  There are significant differences in the two disasters.  Haiti has been destroyed while in the US only a major city was destroyed, those in the city can easily move to other cities it's much harder to leave Haiti.<p>3.  The US military is has significant limitations on actions it can take in US and rightly so.<p>4.  The majority of the problems with regards to Louisiana were due to complete incompetency of the state government not following it's own plans and a lot of the controversies were generated by the media merely repeating rumors.