The Republicans are fond of saying that 9/11 changed everything. In a way, they are right, of course, although their use of that change has been despicable. That tragedy has been used by them to cower a national press, frighten people into giving up their civil liberties, and justify terrible laws that benefit the few.
But now we can say with equal truth, sincerity, and passion that---almost four years to the day since 9/11---Katrina has changed everything again. Our enemy is no longer "over there", but in Washington as embodied in the GOP. Katrina has showed us that our new enemies are greed, incompetence, and apathy, and that the damage done by these enemies are not only economic, civil, and psychological, they are now very much physical, resulting in far more unnecessary (i.e. preventable) destruction and death than we saw on 9/11.
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