More Katrina

Katrina shows that the US is woefully unprepared for major terrorist attack

Bush showing weakness (Buchanan), his adminstration has blundered (let's get the lawyers out of disaster relief - Novak), but W will bounce back (Morris)

Mark Steyn admits he was wrong:

Readers may recall my words from a week ago on the approaching Katrina: "We relish the opportunity to rise to the occasion. And on the whole we do. Oh, to be sure, there are always folks who panic or loot. But most people don't, and many are capable of extraordinary acts of hastily improvised heroism." What the hell was I thinking? I should be fired for that. Well, someone should be fired. I say that in the spirit of the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, the Anti-Giuliani, a Mayor Culpa who always knows where to point the finger.

For some reason, I failed to consider the possibility that the panickers would include Hizzoner the Mayor and the looters would include significant numbers of the police department, though in fairness I wasn't the only one. As General Blum said at Saturday's Defence Department briefing: "No one anticipated the disintegration or the erosion of the civilian police force in New Orleans."

Deadly Bureaurocracy by Bobby Jindal points out: Sometimes, asking for forgiveness is better than asking for permission when it comes to the Feds...

And finally, a heart felt account from NRO by someone who calls New Orleans home.

So I'm angry: at Nagin, at Blanco, at Bush, at Chertoff, at FEMA, at the thugs and looters, at the clueless and judgmental national media, at the congressional pork barons, at Hastert (almost rabidly so), at the whole conglomeration of incompetents that failed to anticipate the easily anticipatable disaster, failed to respond well or at all to the disaster once it befell, and failed to report and analyze and comment on it with fairness or understanding once the disaster metastasized.