Press awe at Katrina aftermath

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Press awe at Katrina aftermath:

"The scale of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina leaves many press commentators outside the US shaking their heads in disbelief.

While some focus on the environmental implications, others look at the growing political storm, and its potential impact on President Bush."
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New Orleans may go down in history as the first major city in an advanced country to be lost to the process of global warming... We sincerely hope that the Bush administration will take the call from Hurricane Katrina and reconsider its energy and environmental policies and replace ostrich-like escapism with leadership in the global effort to deal with the crisis of global climatic change.
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What is certain is that the tragedy has that has razed to the ground the states of Louisiana and Mississippi has shown up the weak flanks of a country which, taken up in the last few years with its imperial adventures, has ignored matters that are much more important for the well-being of its citizens.
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We sympathize with the American people in their predicament after Hurricane Katrina. But the real hurricane is the Iraqi resistance that does not target innocent [Americans].