If Katrina Were Lebanese

If the Americans were as politically centered as us Lebanese, they would have quickly skipped the terrible humanitarian disaster caused by Katrina and jumped straight into the politics:

Liberals would have swiftly blamed president Bush for the storm because he didn’t sign the Kyoto protocol

Religious conservatives would have said that new Orleans was punished by God. First for being of French origin, and second because of their notoriously exuberant Mardis Gras annual festival

Liberals would jump back and blame all the looting and shooting that is taking place on the lack of gun control in America. They would also maintain that the soldiers that are now in Iraq could have helped with the evacuations instead of their “pointless” war. The conspiracy theorists will also ask why is it that blacks always get the disasters.

Just the fact that I can even think of that shows how wrong our tendency as Lebanese to politicize everything is.