As a resident of the Greater New Orleans area, I understand the damage caused by the invasion of the Formosan Termite. While these termites have caused a lot of damage to local homes, the overwhelming majority of responsibility for the failure of our levee system must fall on the US Army Corps of Engineers. It was faulty engineering that caused the levees to fail not Katrina. So while we do have a problem with the Formosan Termite, you can't place the blame on them for what was (and still is) a human failure.

One could also suggest that if the Corps of Engineers had never straightened the rivers, which brought about the necessity of levees in the first place, then the levees never would have failed. And going even further back, had people never built their houses in an area that is inherently a flood plain, then there never would have been a flood problem at all. The natural process is for the mississppi to flood - generally on a yearly basis. It's also true that hurricanes are getting worse - probably because of human activity. We don't seem to want to ever take responsibility for our actions, and now we are paying the price. Then again, the termites are still really really hungry.