New Orleans – a cracked societyThe New Orleans catastrophe has emerged as a disaster of a kind which we haven’t encountered in the West before, though such events are regular occurrences in Africa.There has been a succession of natural tragedies befalling countries in many parts of the world in recent years: the Boxing Day tsunami, the Kobe earthquake, the lethal earthquakes in Iran, Turkey and Italy; and the recent great flooding of Mumbai.In none of these was there a serious breakdown of law a…
