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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Katrina's Aftermath
T
he irony of this disaster almost exceeds the tragedy. The richest, most powerful, most technologically advanced nation in the world has been devastated by a foreseeable stroke of nature that it refused to prepare for.
T
he U.S. government has squandered billions of dollars on a needless war but cannot respond adequately to the crisis at home. "It can't happen here," we used to say with a certain smug complacency. But it did happen in September 2001 and it has happened again four years later.
W
hether the disaster is man-made or natural, America is short-sighted, vulnerable and unprepared. When will we learn that the good life, the secure life, is not floating casinos and Nascar races, but a social structure that supports the environment and the people in it?
Posted by fm on September 07, 2005 at 12:14 AM