Beyond belief
It is very difficult to sum up the feelings I have about what has happened in New Orleans, how a whole city in my country, not some struggling nation, can be left essentially to rot and die for days. One must start with George W. Bush, but I am afraid it cannot end there. The adminstration made bad decisions, horrible decisions in some cases, but where was the outcry from the Democrats, my party, when the cuts in emergency planning that put the city at such great risk were made?
I can believe that many people neglected the poor and black victims. But it seems the soaring energy costs will hurt a lot of the business that the GOP always claims to protect. (Although I fear the oil companies will squeeze money out of this in the end, and so will Halliburton).
It just seems to me that something is going horribly wrong in this county that goes beyond the stupidity of “W”. Even if you believe that we had a proper purpose in getting rid of Saddam Hussein, how could anyone allow that war to take so much resources away from our nation to allow thousands of people to die from a storm everyone knew was coming, when experts warned that New Orleans could suffer just such a fate.
Getting rid of the Bush cabal is the first step, but we have to address why America elected him in the first place, and squarely face the issue — are we ready to offer a solid alternative that can bring America behind it?
There’s a lot of work to do here. A lot.