Katrina, Iraq and the Know-It-All Syndrome
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
09/02/05
Instead of protecting New Orleans from the relentless assault of the Gulf, the erosion-control equipment purchased by the U.S. government is over in 'liberated' Iraq, being used to shield our troops from the deadly accolades of a grateful populace. A more dramatic -- and tragic -- demonstration of the principle of how war (and State action) diverts resources away from rational uses would be hard to find. The know-it-alls in Washington, D.C., know nothing -- and, worse than that, they don't know that, either. Instead, sitting comfortably in their offices a good distance from the disaster they unleashed -- either directly, in the case of Iraq, or indirectly, as in New Orleans -- they remain supremely indifferent to the commoners' fate...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7137
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Justin Raimondo
09/02/05
Instead of protecting New Orleans from the relentless assault of the Gulf, the erosion-control equipment purchased by the U.S. government is over in 'liberated' Iraq, being used to shield our troops from the deadly accolades of a grateful populace. A more dramatic -- and tragic -- demonstration of the principle of how war (and State action) diverts resources away from rational uses would be hard to find. The know-it-alls in Washington, D.C., know nothing -- and, worse than that, they don't know that, either. Instead, sitting comfortably in their offices a good distance from the disaster they unleashed -- either directly, in the case of Iraq, or indirectly, as in New Orleans -- they remain supremely indifferent to the commoners' fate...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7137
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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