New Orleans = Fallujah

Bionic Octopus has it exactly right: they’re focusing on the criminal acts of a few of the people in New Orleans who might just feel that they’re being left to starve to death, as an excuse for their failure to bring in the relief they promised or carry out the evacuation in a competent and timely fashion. If this sounds eerily familiar, it’s because this is the excuse we’ve been hearing for two years now for the failed reconstruction in Iraq. They’re trying to make us think of the “looters” as the equivalent, or at least lesser versions of, Iraqi guerillas.
(Update: And just as unworthy of life. Via Media Matters, Peggy Noonan wrote today: “I hope the looters are shot.” Bitch.)

Those looters, those people who refused to evacuate their homes, why do they hate America?