Things undone:
1. The plan to protect the Gulf Coast
Does anyone think that Katrina was the last hurricane that will hit the Gulf Coast?
Most climatologists predict that hurricanes will be getting bigger and stronger.
Of course, this administration has no long term plan to protect the coastline. Nobody would expect them to.
Note, however, that none of the Democratic candidates running for President has made that part of their platform.
2. The plan to pick up the trash
There are still refrigerators in trees in New Orleans. There are still carcasses of cars in the woods and swamps of Louisiana and Mississippi.
When will someone do what needs to be done, just to clean up the mess?
Again, it's not part of any Democratic candidates campaign.
3. The plan to get Osama bin Laden
We're all tired of war and want to get out of the wars we do have.
Nonetheless, there is one person who headed up one gang that actually attacked the United States.
Just because Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al, with all their secret wiretaps, secret prisons, their tortures, their bombing campaigns, the 600,000 Iraqi dead, and all the rest, didn't get him, it doesn't mean that he shouldn't be gotten. Or that it's impossible.
Do we want to say that it really is OK to attack America, and we're happy to forget who did it?
Or, will we go after Osama bin Laden?
Let's hear from the candidates. Democrats and Republicans.
4. The investigation into the failure to get Osama bin Laden
It's been more than five years now. With a more money and more power than anyone has ever had available in the history of the world to get one man, this administration failed to get him.
Why not? Was it sheer ineptitude? Was it deliberate?
Is anyone responsible? The FBI, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs? The commander-in-chief?
Should anyone pay any price at all for such a grand failure? Forced resignation? Demotion? Public flagellation? Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
It's time for a Failure to Find Osama Commission.