[Feiny]

"However, I do think there's an element of FR that wants to pretend there were few deaths because they're really irritated that this could be worse than 9/11, and yet not have been caused by Muslims."

That wins for the most assinine comment I have read today. This is a natural disaster not terrorism & there is no comparison.

[Strategerist]

I'm a pretty good judge of what a certain group of people on FR thinks, and I stand behind it; and it's also based on a variety of specific posts (now long buried in the tens of thousands of posts on the main Katrina threads.)

I think a contributor to it is they know the question is going to be raised if there was an over-focus on terrorism in comparison to natural disaster awareness, and that it's not a totally invalid question to ask.

I know that some of the same people that routinely mock posting about scientists warning of various natural disasters are some of the same people that get worked into a frenzy over a report of some swarthy guy taking a picture near a reservoir, or Joseph Farah's scare-of-the-week stories.