Op-Ed Columnist - The Oil Plume - NYTimes.com

(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

Wasn't Brooks an early proponent of complete deregulation?

Now read this:


Op-Ed Columnist - The Oil Plume - NYTimes.com: "Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America’s inability to take decisive action in the face of pervasive problems. In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country’s inability to govern itself."