Having seen/heard the Tim Russert interview with Judge Michael Chertoff, currently head at Dept. of Homeland Security, one was given to recall that famous Clintonesque offering of "it depends on what the meaning if is is".
Judge Chertoff allowed that while there were certainly problems, that now was not the time for finger pointing or for blame laying or for the placing of blame. Looking at who failed could be taken care of later, later being some conveniently unspecified point in time.
While there is some sense in what the gentleman had to say, I beg to differ with him regarding the placing of blame, which is something that must be done concurrently with whatever efforts are bent toward fixing things, lest blame become something swept under that all to convenient, and always available carpet. If, based on past performances, it isn't done now, or damned soon, it will NEVER be done, and the same "boobus bureaucratus" who screwed the pooch in a manner that led to what we see before us, the hurricane NOT included for that was an act of god, will likely remain in the seats of power they so undeservedly occupied, and will screw the poor pooch again.
Whatever action might prove necessary to see that those responsible for the bungling, for the screw-ups, never occupy any position of either authority or public trust again, must be taken and sooner is ever so much better than later. By the way, I do not make reference to the offering up of that all to convenient sacrificial lamb. Retribution must be carried to the top of The Food Chain regarding this debacle.
Judge Chertoff allowed that while there were certainly problems, that now was not the time for finger pointing or for blame laying or for the placing of blame. Looking at who failed could be taken care of later, later being some conveniently unspecified point in time.
While there is some sense in what the gentleman had to say, I beg to differ with him regarding the placing of blame, which is something that must be done concurrently with whatever efforts are bent toward fixing things, lest blame become something swept under that all to convenient, and always available carpet. If, based on past performances, it isn't done now, or damned soon, it will NEVER be done, and the same "boobus bureaucratus" who screwed the pooch in a manner that led to what we see before us, the hurricane NOT included for that was an act of god, will likely remain in the seats of power they so undeservedly occupied, and will screw the poor pooch again.
Whatever action might prove necessary to see that those responsible for the bungling, for the screw-ups, never occupy any position of either authority or public trust again, must be taken and sooner is ever so much better than later. By the way, I do not make reference to the offering up of that all to convenient sacrificial lamb. Retribution must be carried to the top of The Food Chain regarding this debacle.