Slouching toward disaster.(PROSPECTS)
American Prospect, The, November, 2005 by Starr, Paul
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> MOST OF US DO NOT ORDINARILY CONSIDER OUR lives to be at stake in matters of public policy. The prospect of an avian flu pandemic, however, puts us all in jeopardy, and if the dilatory response of the Bush administration proves fatal in this case as it did after August 2001, when the president was told that Osama bin Laden was about to strike within the United States yet did nothing, or in the years leading up to Hurricane Katrina, when engineers repeatedly warned that the levees in New Orleans were inadequate, we will pay an even greater price for our slothful, ideologically ...
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