The Blame Game 

The Blame Game

The blame game in New Orleans is in full bloom though most of it seems to be coming from local officials blaming the feds and of course people looking to score political points. It is way too soon to start assigning blame. First of all this was such a strong storm it is unlikely anything short of a total evacuation would have stopped the loss of live. As to why there wasn’t, why relief didn’t get there sooner, why law and order broke down there will be plenty of time to assess that. Why does there also have to be someone to blame? Aren’t there accidents anymore or natural disasters? Is someone to blame for everything? Eventually it will become clear what happened but to try to assess it in the heat of the moment is stupid. Look at 9-11 and how much we thought we knew about it right away turned out to be false and how we are still learning things about it. Stop the blaming and just get the job done.