Counting the Cost

If I were to ask the question, "why did it take 5 days for buses to arrive to evacuate people" it is interpreted automatically as an "anti-Bush" statement. Asking hard questions after a devastating event is not about pointing fingers (which is nothing more than sandbox behavior). Asking hard questions is what any accountable agency would do after such an unparalleled disaster....

Watching the plight of the people, makes it that much important to do a full review of the relief efforts. Large numbers of lives are lost, entire businesses and structures and schools are gone. Again, it is not about "Liberal" social paternalism (let us do for you what you cannot do for yourself). It is about giving a shit about people that have real issues. If our nation, province, city and neighbors become so hard to the fact that sometimes bad things happen and people need a hand that we turn a blind eye, then God help us all.

[via Reflective Musings]