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The point is, we've known for so long, that New Orleans is a trouble spot. If a major hurricane is headed in that direction, relief should have been in place before hand. It shoudn't have taken as many days as it did, and they've admitted it themselves.
It's what happens after such a disaster, that I expect a higher level of competence and protection. The president doesn't even know what the hell's going on, though that's pretty much expected these days. After what happened on 9/11, you'd expect them to be better prepared for a large scale disaster, but it doesn't look like they've learned anything.
There were a lot of people that, for whatever reason were unable to evacuate (the poor, the ill, etc.). It does however suck that there were those stubborn morons, with the means to leave, yet did not. You have to realise that a lot of these people have children, who are not guilty of anything, they don't deserve to be left behind to die.
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I agree that perhaps more could've been done before hand to prepare for the worst. But I don't really think you can compare 9/11 to a hurricane. They're completely different things, the latter being a HUGE strain on help and rescue services. If new york had been hit by a hurricane on 9/11, then the situation would've been far worse - a disaster area of 1km squared compared with a disaster area of 100s of km squared.
I find it interesting though that people are saying New Orleans is now effectively a dead city, and will remain abandoned forever. Anyone heard any more on this? Cause right now I'm sceptical at best.