I nominate Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu for the dumbest remark of the young year:

“I often think we would have been better off if the terrorists had blown up our levees,” she said. “Maybe we’d have gotten more attention.”

Nevermind the offensiveness of the remark, her statement represents either grand ignorance or a disgusting sense of priorities.

Had terrorists blown up the levees, there would have been absolutely no evacuations prior to everybody being ten feet under water. Not only would no one have had time to leave, they wouldn't have had time to prepare. There'd have been no Superdome or convention center set up and that wouldn't matter nearly as much cause cars would be under water before anyone that had a car could drive there. There'd have been not the slightest inkling that the day would be any different than the day before. What emergency response there was would have taken much longer to arrive.

The death toll would have dwarfed both 9/11 and the hurricane's bodycount. Is Landrieu seriously saying that it might have been worth it for a little more attention after the fact? Would she be pleased to see the government dedicate the totality of its resources towards fishing tens of thousands of bodies out of the water? Does nothing matter so much as a bounty from the federal government? I guess I shouldn't chalk up to malice what can be attributed to gross stupidity.

So is she right that the government would be responding much more thoroughly if it had been a terrorist attack? Maybe. How's that Freedom Tower project going? Anyhow, even if she is right about that, we should all seriously be thanking God that the terrorists aren't creative to come up with such an attack.