Maybe now the mass media experts (idiots) can understand why we just can't pull out of Iraq and everything will be hunky-dory. When the established order disappears, it takes a while to rebuild the infrastructure of civility and civilization. It doesn't just happen because op-ed writers think it ought to be so -- because they never have to account for all the irresponsible things they say.
Send the Helen Thomases and Paul Krugmans over to the Superdome to talk some sense into those people and restore order. For that matter, send them to Iraq.
Exactly....and the stupid gov. of LA this a.m. during a presser was still acting like the looters should stop......because she said so.