Bill Whittle has posted a very good, very non-PC piece in which he explores evil people, people who don’t believe that evil exists, and people of action, in the dual context of terrorism and the savagery and utter incompetence we’ve witnessed in New Orleans:
Now, much has been made of the fact that Ray Nagin [Mayor of New Orleans] is an incompetent, race-baiting black man, and Rudy Giuliani, who was neither, is white. Also, feminists are upset that people dare attack Governor Blanco because she is incompetent, weak, indecisive, and also a woman. And no doubt there are salivating long-haired, short-cortexed idiots just waiting for this to be over so they can sail into the comments section and tell me what a racist and misogynist I am.
Well, here’s the news flash: Nagin isn’t incompetent because he’s black. He’s incompetent because he’s incompetent. Condoleeza Rice is black. Colin Powell is black. Ted Kennedy, a man well-acquainted with rising water crises is as white as they come. Kennedy is incompetent; Rice and Powell are two of the most competent people on the planet.
This is about tribes, all right: not black and white tribes, but rather a battle between the capable and the culpable.
Same holds for Governor Blanco. She’s not weak because she’s a woman, or because she’s a Democrat. Truman was a democrat. The Buck stopped there. She’s weak and indecisive because that is the individual she is. I wish history could work with variables: I’d love to see what Margaret Thatcher would have done in such a case. It would not only have been better, it would have been good. That woman was tough. She could be Grey as granite. And, for this, the Pink Tribe despises her.
Yes. Read the whole thing.
While much is being made about the federal response to Katrina, the real blame lies at the feet of local officials. Disaster preparedness begins at the local level, not the federal level, and it is glaringly obvious that Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco have utterly failed their constituents.