People have talked about the images from NO and how they will inflame racial divisions. But there also heartening images out of NO–of black and white people literally intertwined in each others’ arms in these helicopter rescues we’ve been seeing….Also, isn’t it very weird to hear liberals who are kept awake at night by the “library search” provisions of the Patriot Act clamoring, in effect, for brushing aside all the constraints on the use of the military in domestic situations? Wouldn’t that be a fitting object of their paranoia in any other (non-Bush bashing) circumstance?