Umesh:
I think what you are witnessing is a Close Encounter of America of A Third Kind. This shows that America is good a big things like, bringing Germany to its knees, dropping a nuclear bomb or two in Japan, attacking Iraq with a 100 billion dollar budget etc. But in this total failure of the Federal Govt handling of a Natural Disaster during its first week where hundreds of Americans are still dying in a major American city, Americans may be realizing for the first time that may be America need to change its focus from flexing its muscle all over the world as the unrivaled Super Power to caring its own poor citizens, that there may be some truths in what the Environmental scientists are saying to say, that Natural Disasters are not necessarily programmed by the Creator but may happen due to a evolutionary process of global warming etc. I think this disaster, or rather the failure to handle this disaster in time, will have great consequence for the American Mind. 
Rajen Barua .
 
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C-da,
 
It is surprising that so many people are dying even after the announcement that ALL must leave the cities being hit by Katrina. Seems there is much more to people's intelligence than mere school level education - since nearly ALL are literate in US and have money enough to buy TVs and hire buses to leave the city. Still about 100,000 remained in the city and thousands are supposed to be dead.
 
Umesh

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"Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee Failure" And so much for engineering determinism --- from the world's most advanced and wealthy nation. cm

NATIONAL / NATIONAL SPECIAL   | September 2, 2005
Federal Response:  Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee Failure
By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LIPTON
Despite all the warnings, Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the very government agencies that had rehearsed for such a calamity.


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