The parallel is a bit eery to me. Four years ago in September George Bush was trying to answer American's questions--is this the end of the world (we can be a bit ethnocentric ya' know. Millions can die in genocide in Rwanda, hundreds can die any day of the week in Palestine or Israel, but if anything happens to Americans it must be a sign of the end of the world)? how weren't we protected from this? what do we need to do to keep this from happening to us again?
George Bush greeted those questions with answers. This is not the end of the world. It is the end of the axis of evil though. This won't happen again because we're going to hunt the enemy down and kill him. We are launching a war on terror. We knew the enemy (or so he said). The enemy was...Afghanistan? Iraq? Some brown people somewhere.
Well, now what are we to launch? A war on God? As he twisted the war of terror around so he could pin it on the Iraqis, maybe he's going to twist this hurricane around and make it an act of the Iraqis too. (the result of all of this is always the same anyway...terrorists attack? oil prices go up. hurricane hits? oil prices go up. the sun shines while Bush is president? oil prices go up). Actually, maybe he'd be right. If the oil situation hadn't gotten so crazy, maybe folks could afford to get in their cars and drive away from New Orleans. Or maybe they could afford to have cars at all.
I really think the reason Bush has said so little in the days following Katrina (other than, "let's not play the blame game"....which he makes sound so fun!!!) is he really has no one to blame. The petulant school boy is looking around for someone to blame...like a 5th grader wanting to blame the teacher who just doesn't like him or the schoolmate who "started it" or the dog who ate the homework. Really, all he can blame for this situation is 100% an act of God. And as the fine president, anything that happens on this country after God's act is all he can be responsible for.
Perhaps Bush is realizing that as much as he would like to tell people who to marry, who to fight, who the leader of a country across the ocean should be, how people across the world should govern themselves, what women should do with their unborn, how parents should educate their kids, and how to save (or kill) the environment, he is not quite ready for God's job. After all, he can't do his own.
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Yep, Katrina sure was an act of God. It was God's response to the way we (particularly Americans) pump greenhouse gases into the air as if our actions have no consequences. Yep. You throw some mess at God and God throws some mess right back at you--in the form of warming seas and more intense and higher frequency storms. Georgie Boy ain't ready for God's job. He (and we) can't continue to ignore God's green earth and our impact on it.
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