Ethical and moral dilemmas seem to affect decision maker at several levels during Katrina. At the federal level President Bush was faced with the dilemma of whether to order a federal takeover of the crisis management from state and local government. The issue of letting local officials to continue to handle the situation even when he knew they were overwhelmed and federal assistance was late in coming was balanced against thoughts of how much can be done to help the crisis if he were to establish constitutional precedence and enact a federal takeover and possibly be seen as a federal bully. Bush, of course let local government handle the crisis to the best of their abilities and now the event is seen by the world as a major breakdown in American
