Re: Ready to forgive, but never to forget: A guest column by Michael Homanl Homan

Ready to forgive, but never to forget: A guest column by Michael Homanl Homan

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2010/08/ready_to_forgive_but_never_to.html

I was struck dumb by Michael's aspiration that "subsequent levee failures are a distant memory" coupled with the notion of forgivness. Until the perpetrators (and there were many) commit themselves to prevent future failures by applying the lessons learned from past failures, I, personally, can find no room for forgiveness.

As laura5490 so aptly put it, The Corps and its masters and co-conspirators in Congress and the Executive branch have explicitly rejecting the findings and recommendations of the IPET. The finding was that pre-Katrina flood protection works were a system in name only. The recommendation was to treat future efforts with a comprehensive systems approach. The Dutch added the imperative of putting safety first. NONE of these recommendations have been adopted and, in fact, they have been purposefully been rejected and discarded.

I'm sorry to take such an un-Chistian posture but foregivness will only come with a concrete, science-based commitments and actions to ensure that there are no more "subsequent levee failures." Today, the Corps employs bad science and failed practices and expects us to believe that our risks are reduced to an acceptable level. They haven't learned