"Things come apart"

Short of calling in airstrikes, could FEMA and the local authorities have made things much worse in New Orleans?
a quick collection of stuff:

Police wouldn't let evacuees out New Orleans

Drownie, you're doing a heck of a job

Toxic waters will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain --- or else

It's the poverty and class warfare, stupid

mercenaries, not looters, rule the streets

and Krugman, as usual, is dead on correct