Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 10:21 AM by Gene

Here's one pundit who's impressed with the response -- and we should be impressed with HIM because he's a "senior fellow in national-security affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council [AND] a trustee for the Leaders for Liberty Foundation":

The New York Times has called the military response “a costly game of catch up.” Catching up compared to what, one wonders. National Guard units were mobilized immediately; 7,500 troops from four states were on the ground within 24 hours of Katrina — a commendable response given the disruptions to the transportation infrastructure.

Don't you love crystal-clear writing? Within 24 hours of what? Of the Weather Service spotting it? Of landfall? If it's landfall that's disaster -- it should be obvious even to an NRO writer what a hurricane can do in 12 hours. THE PAPER OF RE-CORD is RIGHT. Let's end these costly catch-up games with A PERMANENT HURRICANE CORPS.

P. S.

A disaster of this magnitude is certain to be politicized....

That is true; we've had faint inklings of it. But the other side can politicize it too, especially in a not-too-carefully disguised attempt to defend THE MISSING PRESIDENT.

Hell, even HE doesn't like it.