Katrina Worse than 911? Yes!

I agree with Nagin. Although the Katrina calamaty resulted from profound neglect and incompetence by the leaders of Louisiana along with the Army Corps (I suppose), once it struck, having a major metropolitan city sunk under water represented a MUCH worse situation than the World Trade Towers collapsing. Sure, Nagin's response was no good, and neither was that of any other leader, including Bush. But in NYC, Gulliani, who had a much easier job, got universal praise, for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

In NYC perhaps the same number or fraction of people acted as deplorably as the looting louts (including all those looting fire fighters), but 911 only lasted a few hours and was confined to a small area. Katrina effectivley sunk an entire city perminantly. NYC's thugs never had the entire city over an entire week to run free. And NYC's surrounding areas (Brooklyn, Bronx, etc.) did not also suffer their own devistation, as was the case in NOLA. So Brooklin and the Bronx never had to contend with both their own devistation PLUS a mass of refugees, including retarded thugs, as was the case of cities surrounding NOLA, who had to block NOLA refugees in order to protect themselves from NOLA thugs.

Nagin had a much harder job. He didn't do anything before or during the catastrophe to warrent any praise; he fell down on the job just as all his predicessors did, as did his fellow area politicians, as did the citizens, all of whom never cared about their levess, even as they knew that the levess were inadequat.