"To: jeffers
I hope you are not making excuses for the pitifully poor management in New Orleans right now. "
I'm telling you, personally, that we don't have time to waste even asking that question until all of the people at risk are either safe or dead.
The Feds are in charge now. If they make mistakes that put people at risk, then that problem would need to be indentified and fixed, quickly.
But until all of those people have been rescued and fed and watered or buried, what happened two days ago or five days ago or years ago, simply doesn't matter.
We have higher priorities now.
This is a triage situation.
The overriding criteria right now how to be, "which action will save the most people?"
Nothing else matters.
People are dying in attics as I type this post.