http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/opinion/05herbert.html?ex=1283572800&en=a8bed3884ac0f03e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
すさまじい非難の論調です。
He would have noticed if the majority of these stricken folks had been white and prosperous. But they weren't. Most were black and poor, and thus, to the George W. Bush administration, still invisible.
What we witnessed, as clearly as the overwhelming agony of the city of New Orleans, was the dangerous incompetence and the staggering indifference to human suffering of the president and his administration.
これがアメリカ国民一般の感情だとすれば、この政権はもう何もできないのではないでしょうか。
別のKilled by Contempt - The New York Timesという記事には
As many people have noticed, the failed response to Katrina shows that we are less ready to cope with a terrorist attack today than we were four years ago.
とありますが、もしこれが本当だとすれば、ますますテロとの戦いを声高に叫ばざるをえなくなっている現政権としては致命的です。
そういえば、日本でも森前首相がハワイ沖の潜水艦事件のさいにゴルフをしていて非難されていました。どこの国でもあることといえばそうですが、今回は被害が大きすぎます。
