Unwanted Commentary

I should know better than to stick my mouth out where my brain can't handle it. I've spent what little free time I've had today looking at various stories about Katrina in the aftermath. Like everything that's going on in our world today I can't really decide who to believe, it seems like everyone is very busily pushing whatever measure of truth they know towards their own agenda. I say it seems that way, perhaps just to me.

Stories that I read and hear seem to sway violently from one end to the other, depravity and horror to valiant bravery and kindness. FEMA's response was horrendous to FEMA's response was as good as it could have been given the situations. So, really, I don't know what to think right now or who to believe. It seems hardly comprehensible, all the things that have gone on. There are things I would like to believe, things that I want to believe, but deep down I have the feeling that I'm being a little to naive and optomistic.

I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the murky, grey middle. It's my belief that it often does. In the midst of catastrophic destruction and chaos most people will desolve into their baser instincts. Decisions are made and the true character of many people rises to the surface during times of duress, for good or ill. There's been a lot of good and a ton of ill. Perhaps there has been intentional malice, perhaps great evils are at work in the aftermath of an enormous natural disaster. There are stories that I find hard to dismiss out of hand, but also find hard to completely trust. To my mind, like so many other unfortunate situations I've viewed through the toob, you don't need conspiracy or evil Presidents to explain what happened. Quite simply people tried their best, but made mistakes and other's suffered because of it and died because of it. I guess I'm just not ready to believe that there are people out there, in leadership roles or elsewise, with the type of malice to do such evil deeds.

So I'm naive and trusting...it is, after all, who I am.