From a September 8 BBC Newspaper summary of the French press:

“Katrina’s devastation points the finger at Bush’s system,” announces LE MONDE’s top headline.
Below the headline sits an large cartoon of George Bush watching wide-screen footage of black people floating dead in the water or screaming for help as an army patrol sails by on a boat, heavily armed. Bush is being briefed by his generals. Distraught and determined, he says: “But, what country is this? Is it far away? We absolutely have to do something!”
“The ravages of hurricane Katrina, which has swallowed up New Orleans…have provoked in the United States a debate on George Bush’s model of government,” says the French daily, noting that “for some…the page is turning on September 11, and this is perhaps the end of triumphant conservatism”.
“Issues forgotten for years are back to the fore: poverty, the state’s absence, latent racism,” it goes on.
“After the 2001 attacks, the blacks had felt better integrated. Problems concerning society and poverty disappeared behind anti-terrorist concerns,” it concludes.