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While I believe (and always have said) that all levels of government are at fault here, the fact is that the problems within New Orleans are specific to New Orleans. The faults of New Orleans are pretty likely going to be irrelevant to the next hurricane or terrorist attack, which could occur anywhere. However the faults of FEMA and the current administration will be anything but irrelevant to the next disaster or terrorist attack. They will rather be center stage again.
So if you want to think in terms of risk: failure to quickly correct the faults of FEMA carries much greater immediate risk to American citizens than failure to quickly correct the faults of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans, which is likely not to experience another Katrina for 300 years.
My feeling is that if we are truly concerned about improving our current emergency preparedness in order to save American lives, we need to focus most or our attention on the federal government.
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