I've noticed a familiar theme during a lot of the interviews I've seen over the last week. The interviewee spends several minutes discussing how this disaster was inevetable due to the geography of the city. This portion of the interview generally includes at least some bad mouthing regarding the lack of foresight and preparation prior to the current disaster. Then, the interview concludes with statments that the city should be rebuilt.
Eveyone says that hindsight is 20/20, but you really don't need the benifit of hindsight to see how rebuilding NO will turn out, just turn on the news. To sit there and say that we should have seen this coming because it was inevitable and then in the next breath state that NO will have to be rebuild just seems stupid to me.
In the end, I think a portion of NO will be rebuilt, but the city will be much smaller than it was before.