Nice to see a more unbiased report from somone other than CNN. Thanks for those facts
Good summation, Karl.
Karl, that is a very clear and succinct summation. The reality is that the media has been absurdly irresponsible in its coverage.
Politics of Envy sounds like, though writ large and twisted some. I can't see thier center from here either. Makes me sad. Does it ever seem to you that the Left, for lack of a better word, wants to drag every argument to their feet so they have a good spot to kick it into submission from? Or is that just my imagination? Oh yeah, nice use of "Diaspora". Heh.
Best Regards,
You know, I really don't like mixing this disaster with politics. I don't think Bush does either. It's almost as if he's laid down that law that no one is to speak ill of Mayor Nagin, who is clearly freaked out, or Gov. Blanco, who seems more and more to be grossly incompetent (on Hume's show tonight, Major Garrett reported that FEMA ordered the Red Cross into NOLA, and Blanco refused to let them in with food and water). Not a word of criticism from anyone in the administration.
But it seems to me that what we're faced with here is a disaster of magnitude unprecedented in U.S. history. To expect any level of government to respond perfectly within hours is just asking a little much. As a member of a family that rode out Hurricane Betsy in New Orleans, a Cat 3 storm that did enormous damage -- largely, I think (Mom, correct me if I'm wrong) because of a false alarm the year before -- this possibility is just something you live with in south Louisiana. Not just in New Orleans, but in Lafayette and Lake Charles and Jennings (my hometown) and Port Arthur, Texas (where I was editorial page editor for six years) and Galveston and Corpus Christi and Brownsville, and all the other coastal cities east of New Orleans and down one side of Florida and up the other and all up the Eastern seaboard.
This will happen. It will happen again. It happened with Hugo in Charleston. It happened with Floyd on the North Carolina coast. It cannot be prevented. People will die if they don't leave.
It's a fact of life. You can dump $10 zillion dollars into FEMA and you won't change a thing. And this fingerpointing bullshit is unseemly and not worthy of a great nation that understands these risks and takes them nonetheless.
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