ABSTRACT
Part of the New Orleans problem—and part of America’s problem— is too great a dependence upon technology. This should teach us that man does not always win against nature; rather, as the Europeans have proven in their flood-control and other programs, it is better to work with nature—to preserve the protective marshlands, to build sparsely or not at all on vulnerable coastlines, to preserve essential wetlands—and not, as this Republican administration has so grossly done, load up every bill with pork-barrel projects that destroy the potential of important projects. The White House announced that it was calling upon think-tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, home and sustainer of the neocons who gave us all that wonderful planning in Iraq. America needs men and women at the top who can and are willing to make tough moral and ethical decisions and see that they’re carried through.
