After the storm: what's wrong with America?
ALEX MASSIE
.....Even some of President George W Bush's staunch supporters are worried. "He is a strong President but he has never really focused on the importance of good execution," says Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and former chief of staff for Vice-President Dan Quayle. "I think that is true in many parts of his presidency."
If that is true of the response to Katrina it is doubly so in Iraq where the war drags on with, to many eyes, little sign of real progress even as the American body count rises inexorably towards the 2,000 mark.
It is easy to forget that prior to September 11 the Bush presidency appeared purposeless and adrift. It was given meaning by Osama bin Laden. The ineffectual response to Katrina has, temporarily perhaps, eclipsed the War on Terror and shown the Bush administration at its worst: out of touch, sluggish to the point of indifference and ultimately incompetent. A government of cronies and toadies, such as the hapless head of FEMA, Michael Brown, promoted well beyond their station. ...
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