Friday, September 02, 2005
Trying to Wash Us Away
Go read Ken Layne.
At best, the United States remains prepared for absolutely nothing, with every American city seemingly ready to descend into eternal hell while politicians congratulate themselves in television studios — four years after the horror of Sept. 11, the day we would “never forget.” At worst, an American treasure, the nation’s energy infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of lives were forever destroyed this week by the deliberate actions by the very government agencies charged with protecting citizens and immediately responding to disasters.|
