EVEN America's many ene-mies around the world tend to accord it respect.It might be arrogant,overbearing and in-sensitive-but,by God,it can get things done.Since Hurricane Katrina,the world's view of America has changed.The disaster has exposed some shocking truths about the place:the bitterness of its sharp racial divide,the abandonment of the dispossessed,the weakness of critical infrastructure.But the most astonishing and most shaming revelation has been of its government's failure to bring succour to its people at their time of greatest need.
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