OpinionJournal - The Real World: "Flooded but Unbowed
America isn't immune to natural disasters, but that doesn't diminish its greatness.
BY CLAUDIA ROSETT
Wednesday, September 7, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
It feels like months. But for just over a week Americans have been staring into the nightmare of New Orleans and asking each other what it means. It means we were unprepared. It means recriminations, it means a chance for Democrats and Republicans to wrangle, for TV talk show hosts, and eventually congressional hearings and a presidential probe, to explore every wrong move that led to the breached levees, the floundering FEMA, and the maddening three days in which armed thugs roamed the streets of the drowning city. It means thousands are feared dead.
There will be questions about every life lost, and how these people might have been saved. That is how a democracy responds to a storm so ferocious that it destroyed entire towns and submerged a city."
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