Republicat Lessons We Will Learn from New Orleans

David Brooks has got his facts wrong on the army corps of engineers and the amount of funding they had. There are excerpts from documents stating just how woefully unfunded the corps of engineers were, and the pleas of Louisiana officials on other threads in the Current Events forum.

This was a failure of a government which took little interest in domestic matters and used tax payer dollars for a highly expensive foreign war that we had no business getting ourselves into, as stated by no one less than General Colin Powell, himself.

Brooks overlooks that one teensy little fact.