You can't rebuild them in a week, but you're trying to tell me that with the man power, knowledge, and technology we have, we couldn't have tapped our resorces and reinforced them? If that's such an outrageous idea, than why would the governor of the state, and mayor of the city take it to DC?
Granted, that shit should have been taken care of years ago, but when shit gets thick, you've got to do what you can to maintain.