I read a story just now about a boy who was raped for four hours in the Astrodome, and died from it. Survivors are banding together to keep watch while their comrades sleep, to fend off the murderers and rapists stalking the stadium and kidnapping kids and women.
The entire situation is miserable. Armed gangs are out of control. Iraq is a financial priority for government, not the people of New Orleans. Folks are having to loot to survive. The government response has been inept to the point I'd expect to see in the Third World. Help went first to the White French Quarter. Bush flew in by helicopter for a photo op, and then flew out.
Its like a snapshot of what we foreigners complain about America. All the bad things. Detached government. Guns. Racism. Violence. Wrong priorities. An America stripped of the good things. The hurricane was the least of it.
