Over at Backwards City, discussing Spike Lee’s powerful HBO documentary When the Levees Broke (which, unfortunately, I’ve yet to see the entirety of), Gerry Canavan writes:
I sometimes wonder whether it’s Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Operation Enduring Freedom, or the tsunami that will come to be seen as the formative disaster of our time. I suppose the tragedy is that it’s all of them.
Actually, I think the formative disaster of our time may have to be the nomination and election of George W. Bush as our nation’s president.
Having someone competent at the helm would have gone a long way to mitigating those other disasters.