The New IEDs

Irreversible Ecological Decline, Irreparable Economic Damage and Indigenous Emigration and Displacement

As the agonizing similarities between the Bush administration’s failures in both gulfs continue piling up here’s one more to consider: the devastating toll of IEDs.
In Iraq, the story is well-known: Rumsfeld et al’s failure to respond to early information about the insurgency’s use of IEDs, not to mention pleas for armored Humvees, has taken a huge toll on U.S. troops, potentially causing hundreds of preventable deaths and thousands of lost limbs.
In the U.S., the devastation caused by Katrina forces us to confront not only the domestic costs of a diversion of resources to imperialistic adventurism, but also a harbinger of the devastating consequences to come from Bush’s denial of global warming and oil-industry-friendly energy policies: Irreversible Ecological Decline.