Military Turned Things Around

The military saved the day in Lousiana, while civilian leadership floundred according to this story from the Toronto Star:

It looks like the military is the only thing that's functioned in this entire mess," Michael Greve, an expert in governance at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Christian Science Monitor. "Once they arrived, things turned around."
While civilian relief agencies will play a greater role as the situation stabilizes, we seem to be witnessing another example of the "militarization of humanitarian relief," a term used by foreign policy pundit Robert Kaplan in an interview with the Star's Lynda Hurst last week.

and:

The politicians were no better at providing leadership. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco was almost invisible, Mayor Nagin colourful but ineffective — his police force just melted — and the president strangely disengaged and rhetorically inept.
The American military, however, is used to solving problems. Whatever political difficulties still exist in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no denying the brilliant military victories the Americans won in both those countries, nor the pivotal role U.S. forces played in the tsunami relief effort.