I read the following paragraph on The New York Times Online. (Excellent website for an excellent newspaper.)
"Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. "The New Orleans hurricane scenario," The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, "may be the deadliest of all." It described a potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening."
What the heck's happening there? It took less than 24 hours for people to come rushing to Asia's aid last December. That is great, really, but why is the same not happening in New Orleans? The fact that this is an American city makes it all the more perplexing.
Oh Mr Bush, people are dying in your backyard.....
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