A New York Times column by Frank Rich reminds us that four years ago, we were attacked by Al-Quaeda, not Iraq.
Frankly, I think that this hurricane should have been a test run for our terrorist security systems, if nothing else.
As Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, pointed out to The Washington Post last week in talking about the fallout from the war in Iraq, there have been twice as many terrorist attacks outside Iraq in the three years after 9/11 than in the three years before. Now, thanks to Mr. Bush's variously incompetent, diffident and hubristic mismanagement of the attack by Katrina, he has sent the entire world a simple and unambiguous message: whatever the explanation, the United States is unable to fight its current war and protect homeland security at the same time.