Late night television viewers are still shaking their heads over ABC Nightline’s Ted Koppel‘s interview last night of Mike Brown, embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Here is a partial transcript of the interview, a portion of which went like this:

Koppel: You have chaos and anarchy breaking out in a number of different places in New Orleans, it would seem the first thing is to get good solid combat troops like the 82nd airborne or 101st in there. These are guys who are ready to move immediately. Instead you send National Guardsmen and it’s taking time. You don’t have time.
Brown: [T]here will soon be 30,000 armed National Guard troops in there to restore order, to take control of the facilities and allow us to do our job.
Koppel: Mr. Brown, you know, forgive me . . . But here we are, essentially five days after the storm hit, and you are talking about what’s going to happen in the next couple of days.

It didn’t get any better for Mr. Brown. Read the entire piece here.
Update: Stephen Bainbridge is asking the same question as Mr. Koppel.