Here are three recent columns from The New York Times that are worth the read.
Are we looking at the end of a the neo-con era? Lot’s of folks are asking the question. The only problem is that the Democrats in the US don’t have any idea on what an effective government might be and while it might seem oxymoronic it is quite true that Dems and Republicans are united on neo-liberalism (free-market) policies.
Frank Rich: Falluja Floods the Superdome
“As the levees cracked open and ushered hell into New Orleans on Tuesday, President Bush once again chose to fly away from Washington, not toward it, while disaster struck. We can all enumerate the many differences between a natural catastrophe and a terrorist attack. But character doesn’t change: it is immutable, and it is destiny…”
Maureen Dowd: United States of Shame
“Stuff happens.
And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal stuff happens.
America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it’s happening in America…”
Bob Herbert: A Failure of Leadership
“”Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead”
Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president’s failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.
The Big Easy had turned into the Big Hurt, and the colossal failure of George W. Bush to intervene powerfully and immediately to rescue tens of thousands of American citizens who were suffering horribly and dying in agony was there for all the world to see…”
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