Insuring Domestic Tranquility

No one can stop a tornado--certainly not one a mile wide. A tornado so strong it wiped out 95% of the town in its path.

Tornadoes happen. And after it's done, the government donates resources to cleaning up and helping the people rebuild their lives.

That's how it used to be, anyway. Before Bush. Before the war in Iraq.

Greenburg, Kansas is having a bad week. First the tornado. Then looting--not by hoodlums but by the people who had been sent to help them. Now they face a shortage of resources. Trucks, humvees, and certainly cash. Everything has gone toward the destruction of Iraq.

It used to be the job of the president to ensure that the American people were taken care of by the American government. But the rules have changed. There are wars to be fought. We're on our own.