They're Doing What They Can

I'm as big a conspiracy theorist as there is, but I don't think that the government is intentionally neglecting the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I understand that people are upset- I would be too- but the government is sending what they can as fast as they can.

Nothing like this has happened before- most hurricanes are either very concentrated (Camille) or just cause minimal damage over a very broad area. This one caused catastrophic damage over 90,000 square miles. No government is fully prepared to deal with this.

Ships are arriving- but they take precious time to get there. The National Guard is arriving in full force.

Sadly, I know that it will be too late to save many. But I refuse to believe that the government could have moved resources any quicker. Bush declared the area an emergency area before the hurricane even hit- allowing the pre-positioning of troops. The problem was that no one could foresee the devastation this particular hurricane would cause. We've probably been hit by a hundred hurricanes in the last fifty years- for some reason, this one was different. It's a tragedy, to be sure- but it's not the government's fault.

Once in a lifetime such a storm strikes- let's focus on the recovery, not criticize the valiant efforts of our rescue workers.