Just to pour gas on the fire.
Isn't New Orleans still below the level of the lake and the river?  Why are 
we using tax dollars to rebuild before we figure out how to prevent the same 
disaster again?  With ten years of warning, the leaders of the city did not 
lead, and the most volnerable citizens did not act.  When we refuse to learn 
from history, history will continue to present the same lesson until we 
figure it out.  We have the might to win any war we want to start.  Before 
we win a war, we have to know how we are going to win the peace.  With out 
that, winning a war is only expence, validation of our enemies beliefs, and 
distruction of life, material, and the environment.  From the first crusade 
which was what around the year 1100 BCE, the lesson is constant.  Keep your 
Christian fingers out of the Moslem world.  They will only grow in hatred 
for you.  They will also cut off the fingers, that is unless they can cut 
off all of your helping hands.