When I put something in the microwave, it’s done in 60 seconds. When I turn on my computer, I get instant news. We live in an accelerating world.

Unfortunately, rebuilding an entire city takes time. Disaster relief takes time. The mythocracy likes to make you think that if they were in power, they could solve all the world’s powers just like that. They couldn’t have averted the hurricane. They didn’t cry and cry for preparing New Orleans for this disaster, and yet they say that everyone saw it coming. Some want to completely crush the looters with guns and tanks; some want to let the looters run free. Neither of those are perfect solutions.

This isn’t SimDisasterRelief. You armchair mythmakers probably couldn’t do a better job than FEMA is doing now. The world runs in real-time. Anything you say that should be done takes time and money. Real time, real money. That being said, there could have been better preparation for the disaster. But where were you hindsight geniuses before the disaster?

Some of them proclaim doom, saying oil prices will destroy us. I don’t think the international community would let them happen. It wouldn’t only affect the US, so we will see foreign aid. However, the choke point is refineries. It doesn’t matter how much oil we get if we can’t refine it.

There’s a certain amount of cruel irony in this situation. We were trying to guard ourselves against another 9/11, and instead we got hit by a hurricane. Funds that should’ve went to FEMA went to Iraq. The Department of Homeland Security focuses on terror, not natural disasters. Net result: America is less safe.

A doctrine of preventative war will bankrupt us. We won’t have money to deal with other real problems. In the end, it’s a net loss.