"Realistically, probably the best you can get is containment and disruption so that Al Qaeda is no longer able to control territory," Gen. Carter F. Ham, the head of the Pentagon's Africa Command, said in a speech in Washington last month.
"We've been on the offensive for the last few days now, but we're going to take advantage of what Mother Nature has given us and work harder to get more containment line in," Cal Fire spokesman Rich Cordova said, according to Reuters. .
Although flawed, it showed talking and diplomacy get results, while containment and confrontation do not, said Joel Wit, a former US government official.
Never let your alien containment get full.
"If Asian carp get into Lake Michigan, there is no stopping them," he said, "and the volumes of water and geography make containment impossible in terms of the other Great Lakes.
Like a cobbler in a town where no new shoes are to be had, Mr. Parker, 60, is helping the oil-spill containment effort get by with the boom it has.
Mr. Hinton's solution was simple: run a wall of barges across the mouth of Weeks Bay to block the current, then run five layers of boom behind it — two to block the oil, and three strands of absorbent boom to soak up any oil that got through the containment layers.
"We've got good, solid containment around most of the neighbourhoods," Chief Tripp was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times.
Cooler weather on Sunday helped Tasmanian firefighters get the upper hand and bolster containment lines around the fires.
