Sunday, September 11, 2005

The Emperor Has No Clothes

That's how I would have titled this Newsweek article:

How Bush Blew It
Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.


How this could be—how the president of the United States could have even less "situational awareness," as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century[?]....

But it is not clear what President Bush does read or watch, aside from the occasional biography and an hour or two of ESPN here and there.....After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him. Bush can ask tough questions, but it's mostly a one-way street.

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