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September 08, 2005
Steve Lopez and Margaret Carlson on the Katrina Debacle
President Bush promised to "lead an investigation into what went right and what went wrong." I think I can help shed some light.If you pour money and manpower into Iraq, hire an amateur to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency and ignore repeated warnings of potentially disastrous flood problems, you're in trouble when a Big One hits.
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we went to New Orleans with the government we have — replete with its Chertoffs, Brownies, Cheneys and assorted other ideologues, cronies and schemers who gorge on patronage, revel in politics and brush off the mundane responsibilities of the offices they hold. They're Big Picture guys who have brought the same management skills to the Gulf states that they brought to that other gulf.
Both Lopez and Carlson's columns in today's Los Angeles Times are to the point but perhaps a little nearsighted. I believe that the Administration's response to Kartina is a matter of policy and not only a matter of incompetence. Checkout my post, "The Federal Katrina Response: Another Strategic Failure" to see why I think this.
Posted by DuaneSmith at September 8, 2005 10:09 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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