September 12, 2005

Political correctness kills

By James Lewis
The most deadly threat faced by the United States is not killer hurricanes. It is not even the jihadists who want to harm us with the best weapons petrodollars can buy. Our worst threat comes from within, as is nearly always the case when a nation or a person accumulates extraordinary wealth and power, and is therefore able to practice folly on the grandest scale. Michael Barone has some astonishing facts in his current US News & World Report column: ——— "A team of Indiana firefighters, volunteering to help rescue victims of Katrina, went to Atlanta, where Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers told them that their job was to hand out fliers and that their first task was to attend a multi—hour course on sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity." ——— " This is, astoundingly, standard operating procedure at FEMA. And in other parts of the federal government." ——— "Former CIA agent Robert Baer writes in his...(Read Full Article)