September 02, 2005
The ball is being dropped
Time to bust out the criticism of President Bush. While I don't feel the need to go completely insane, I'm starting to think that the Bush administration is really dropping the ball on this one. Not enough is being done. The city is descending into anarchy. It's time to bring some order to the situation, and if that means shooting to kill, then that's what it means. But we've got a semi-major US city that happens to be critical to our infrastructure under water and, as of this morning, on fire.
Dennis Hastert, the Speaker of the House, as made what seems to me to be an entirely reasonable and justifiable suggestion: New Orleans may not be worth rebuilding. We need to rebuild our infrastructure and trade facilities, but the city itself was rife with crime, illiteracy, poverty, and the like. Most of the people have left. Maybe we should just let them. Building coastal cities below sea level is nuts, the Dutch notwithstanding.
