Posted on 09/04/2005 3:06:16 AM PDT by guitarnick40
In the Atlantic Monthly a few years back, Robert D. Kaplan went to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other failed jurisdictions of West Africa and concluded that many of the "citizens" of these "states," roaming the streets raping and killing, belonged to a phenomenon called "re-primitivized man."
Anyone watching TV in recent days will have seen plenty of "re-primitivized man," not in Liberia or Somalia, but in Louisiana. Cops smashing the Wal-Mart DVD cabinet so they can get their share of the booty along with the rest of the looters, gangs firing on a children's hospital and on rescue helicopters, hurricane victims being raped in the New Orleans Convention Center. . . . If you're minded, as many of the world's anti-Americans are, to regard the United States as a depraved swamp, it was a grand old week: Mother Nature delivered the swamp, but plenty of natives supplied the depravity.
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Ping!
The comparison with Sept. 11 isn't exact, but it's fair to this extent: Katrina was the biggest disaster on American soil since that day provoked the total overhaul of the system and the devotion of billions of dollars and the finest minds in the nation to the prioritizing of homeland security. It was, thus, the first major test of the post-9/11 structures. Happy with the results?
A resounding NO!
Thanks for the title.
I keep thinking that no matter what is done, N. O. will become America's "Chechnya."
And neither political party seems interested in slowing the twin locusts of pork and entitlement that sap the ability of government to focus on its most important jobs.
in new york rudy guliani stepped into the fray.he didn't wait for W to come tell him what to do.he let the world know who was in charge.the national guard is under the control of the governor.where was she?the mayor has spent millions practicing for this.where was he?the chief of police had 1500 officers under his command.where was he?jesse jackson was in venezuela sucking up to chavez.why wasn't he in new orleans?al sharpton wanted to make a hate america speech with cindy sheehan.why isn't he in new orleans right now?they're all incompetent democrates.even the rescue attempt of the world trade center took days to co-ordinate.crawling around in a demolished building takes balls.they want the republicans to take command during a time of crises,then wonder why they lose elections.si vis pacem,para bellum
Unfortunately, politicians will take more pseudo-actions and make comforting gestures until the public goes back to sleep, then they'll go back to lining their filthy pockets with our money.
Oh, well, maybe the 9/11 commission can rename themselves the Katrina Kommission. Back in the real world, America's enemies will draw many useful lessons from the events of this last week. Will America?
Reagan would never have passed the energy bill that Bush let through, and this debacle in N.O. would never have happened on his watch.
This is the result of forty years of moral relativism. It's not a surprise. If the situation is bad enough any conduct needed to survive or improve your situation is acceptable. Just ask Ted Kennedy.
Nothing changed at the border, that's for sure---waves of illegal entrants still come over every day. And God knows if there are al-Qa'eda operatives among those illegal entrants---our government sure as hell doesn't.
Mark Steyn ping
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