> The raison d'etre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East
> in order to protect America from terrorism and to ensure America's oil
> supply. On both counts, the Bush administration has failed
> catastrophically.
>
> Bush's single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has
> compounded
> a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in
> American
> history. The United States has lost its largest and most strategic
> port
> and thousands of lives, and 80 percent of one of America's most
> historic
> cities is underwater.
>
> If terrorists had achieved this result, it would rank as the greatest
> terrorist success in history.
OK. You've got the 'energy' team in the white house. You've got america's 'largest and most strategic port' in play. It appears that the city is being prepared for abandonment. It seems that an argument could be made that the present conditions could play to the strategic long term interests of 'energy'. An expanded port without the history or civilian population ...
Martin