Katrina was not a political scandal
Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to Brian Shreve’s article in the Feb. 10 edition of The Colonnade.
Directly below his article is a letter addressing the open-mindedness of Christians towards gays. On the same spectrum-but the opposite side-sits Shreve.
He successfully closes his mind to the fact that his “mistake” of invading Iraq brought possibly the most evil that has lived in mine and his lifetime to justice. Whereas I agree that the invasion of Iraq was painfully unjustified at the time and agree with Shreve on many points, I believe it shows little thought on the side of any liberal to hurl potshots at the President.
I also agree that the President may seem incompetent at times and is not the most educated of our nation’s past leaders, but it will be difficult to convince people to take the opposition of him seriously if him being a “douchebag” as part of your argument (plenty of past presidents were, liberal and conservative; it doesn’t necessarily hinder your ability to run America).
Finally, the most glaring error and miscalculation on the part of Shreve in this article is his ability (as is the ability of many far-lefters) to blame the catastrophic events of a hurricane on President Bush (although many point to his poor management of the environment lead to many natural disasters, that is another argument altogether).
Bush abandoned the blacks? I wonder if Shreve gave anything to save the people of New Orleans. Did he drive down there to offer his car and muscle? Probably not. It seems to me he needs a lesson on how the bureaucratic government of this nation works. No one can be prepared to immediately shift all time and attention to a single arena or issue. Please stop trying to transform Hurricane Katrina from a natural disaster to a political scandal. There are already enough of those.
Sincerely,
Matt Baum
Sophomore, Mass Communication
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Feb 17 2006. Filed under Opinion.
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