This article:
http://www.truthout.org/...
reports on the sucker-punch delivered today to New York City by the Department of Homeland Security, in the form of a 40% cut in funding for homeland security planning.
In short, because they hate New York, and for the usual political reasons, Bush and the GOP are setting up NYC to be attacked again. No doubt they'll say that "no one could have anticipated that NY would be attacked again." But in their hearts they'll cheer when it happens.
The reasons for the cut are clear: 1. Bush and the GOP, acting as always out of political motives instead of actually governing, don't want to reward a city they see as a Democratic stronghold, and the don't want to reward the Democratic senators and congressmen in the NY delegation.
2. Bush and the GOP view NY as Sodom on the Hudson (to complement New Orleans as the Gomorrah of the South), and therefore not worth saving (also like N.O).
3. It would suit their purposes politically if NY were attacked again, since they could use any incident as another way to terrorize the American people.
In short, they actually WANT New York to be attacked again. They WANT the Statue of Liberty to tumble into NY Harbor (they were never all that big on liberty anyway). They WANT the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building to go up in smoke. Heck, they would probably actually cheer if we were attacked again.
NOTE: The cut in funding to NY is NOT an example of incompetence. It is, rather, an example of viciousness, and of their constant political approach to all issues. The result -- the failure to protect a very major American city, is entirely predictable. It is not a mistake. It is in fact the INTENDED result. Notwithstanding that they will claim, after the next incident occurs, that "no one could have predicted that terrorists would strike [the Statue of Liberty/the Brooklyn Bridge/ the Verrazano Bridge/Grand Central Station/Times Square/any number of other obvious NY targets]. They know what will happen. They want it to happen. IT's NOT "INCOMPETENCE," IT'S INTENTIONAL!