An anonymous interlocutor took me to task last week for crying about the FEMA and Army types who wouldn’t let reporters ride along to document the search for the dead in New Orleans.
Well, the reporters have their own rides now, but it seems the Army didn’t get the message about letting reporters do their jobs. Or perhaps they got a different message? I find it doubly ironic that the proud 82nd Airborne, heroes of WWII and a vanguard of our rapid deployment capability, was deployed so late to New Orleans and was given the task of protecting the President’s reputation above protecting the people attacked by Katrina.
Do we need to see more pictures of bodies from New Orleans? Yes, just like we ought to see coffins from Iraq. It’s part of the story. It makes us think of how and because of whom we got in this situation. It helps us remember how to vote next time we get the chance.
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