I’m thinking that the anniversary of Katrina will be overshadowed by the five year anniversary of 9/11 and as much as I was horrified about 9/11, as much as I was doing the same angry sobbing that day and for days afterwards, I think Katrina was worse, far worse.
She goes on to claim that Katrina was an attack on US citizens by our government. No, it wasn’t. It was a hurricane. Lots of people ended up miserable, many of whom chose to live below sea level in an area at risk for hurricanes. It’s not the federal government’s fault that the local leadership in Louisiana was incompetent at managing their own state. Yes, the federal response could have been better, but when was the last time everyone was totally happy with the way the government did anything?
Katrina was not an attack on US citizens. It was a hurricane. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Shit happens. The fact that the citizens and government of New Orleans were wholly unprepared does not make it the federal government’s fault. This video can’t be called an attack by the government. It can be called incompetence.
Katrina was bad, yes. 9/11 was far worse. It wasn’t just poor decisions and incompetence, it was raw terror against innocent civilians.
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It seems to me that you didn’t read the rest of what I wrote and that you picked this section out of context. I finished that post with this:
“Then, my middle-way self will gently push herself forward and try her best to see the balance of 9/11 and Katrina and everything else. That it’s all suffering and that our work is to alleviate suffering, as much as we can.
“Then, middle-way self reminds me of our most important task – alleviate the suffering, and start with oneself.”
Thus, this post was about my conflicted feelings, the realm of responses from angry sobbing to cynicism – then to finding compassion in all suffering, including our own.