As we watch Dante's Inferno continue to unfold under our eyes. I try to understand what is going on with the administration. In my work and life, I always have found trying to figure out the other guys' motivations is invaluable.
As hard as it is to try to react rationally to these events, it is crucial to think one step ahead of this cabal, likely stage managed by Dick Cheney at every stage.
Why has all this happened? Possible reasons below the fold:
1) Incompetence combined with budget cuts?
Obviously a factor - but all over the place FEMA refusing to respond, stopping people trying to help - this goes beyond incompetence
2) Near-genocidal instincts?
Again, hard to try to convince those dying and suffering that it is not, but remember, it is not just poor blacks in New Orleans being hurt.
3) Maybe this is it - the cyncial criminal plan is to MAKE THINGS WORSE, so bad that (like perhaps another terrorist attack might do) at some point they can declare martial law nationally.
Perhaps they know what is coming from the Plame indictments as well as the Iraq debacle, perhaps their instinct for self-preservation and self-enrichment is so great that everything else, including the preservation of this republic, comes second to this.
I have always known that Bush at some point would go down. My fear always has been that when he goes down, he takes the rest of the country, and maybe the world, with him.
I hope senior officials in government (and the media) at least consider this. In the back of my mind, I have wondered for months whether the sudden friendship between Bush Sr and Bill Clinton includes mutual concern about W, and shared thoughts about how they might need to intervene at some point.