No limit, no end

This evening, in my mind as I was busy doing other things I had been working on a post for Radio Saigon, but now that I have a few moments to write before I go to bed the outrage underlying the points I wanted to make has fled, leaving only an exhaustion at the slow-motion horror now inundating New Orleans.

I wrote earlier about how I hoped the predictions of watery disaster from levees being overtopped by storm surge waters would prove to be false. That hope was fulfilled, but we all forgot about how weakened levees can be breached in the aftermath of a major storm.

Then I read some comments at another weblog that attempted to put a political spin on the disaster, blaming Democratic policies for all manner of things.

The anti-Democrats are not alone, however, for I have seen similar anti-Republican screeds in other circumstances where the more appropriate reaction is horror and offering of help and prayers, not seeking political points in what some treat as a “grand game”, discussing strategies for victory instead of determining what policies are truly the best for the nation.

I am reminded of something said by a gentleman from the Indian subcontinent on a television show discussing relations between cultures in that troubled region.

He asked with great vehemence, “Is there no limit?”

My reply to his question: No, there is no limit, nor is there an end.

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Jack
In a Democracy the people have knowone to blame but themselves. Politicians of either party who tell them what they don’t want to hear will not be elected.

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