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There's talk of plans for rebuilding the city...this excerpt from a Yahoo News article is interesting...
>> On a follow-up visit a week later, singer Harry Connick, Jr. saw things that raised his hopes. Floodwaters were receding, violence was being contained, and at least one bar had reopened on Bourbon Street, where the 37-year-old Connick cut his musical teeth. "Man," Connick wrote, "if this isn't a sign of New Orleans coming back to its former state!"
>> Maybe. As the shock of one of America's worst natural disaster wears off and floodwaters are pumped out of New Orleans, public figures from local performers to President Bush are beginning to speak of reviving the 287-year-old city as if such a thing is inevitable.
>> They are contemplating what urban planner Robert Lang of Virginia Tech says has "never been done before in America": Using what could be hundreds of billions of public and private dollars to rebuild a modern city on a scale far beyond what happened in San Francisco after its 1906 earthquake, or in Chicago after its 1871 fire.
And although Bush's 'taking responsibility' is indeed just talk, it is substantial that his admin., which never admits mistakes or responsibility for much of anything, put that message out there. In addition, Bush's speech today to the UN saying 'we have to look at why terrorists feel marginalized and attacked by Western interests & policies, what causes them to take up arms and want to hurt us' signals a shift in message from the Bush White House - even if it's all BS, I think it's notable because they've never even come close to saying things like this before. |
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