Kevin Drum has an excellent summary of the fuck-up that is the handling of disaster preparation in general, and the Katrina debacle in particular. As he rightly says, "No one could predict that a hurricane the size of Katrina would hit this year, but the slow federal response when it did happen was no accident." The negligence shown by the Bush administration is criminal. They're already trying to deflect questions about their decisions by calling on Americans to put politics aside, but politics is a significant part of how we ended up where we are right now, and we need to (finally?) hold these bastards accountable.
Posted by Jason at September 1, 2005 07:10 PM