Cities Under Siege was an analysis of what the author, Stephen Graham, believes to be the institutional abandonment of urban sectors in the country by the Bush administration, and how the danger and irresponsibility of this abandonment were made so evident by Hurricane Katrina. It was interesting how the article drew connections between the legislative impact of 9/11 and how this impact manifested itself in misguided funneling of funds to counter terrorist efforts. This in effect crippled the organization who would have been equipped to help New Orleans cope with Katrina. The trend of abandonment for urban areas, characterized as a war against cities, is traced back to political commitments to big money. A commitment to those not normally associated with the demographics of most major American cities, making this inherently corrupt trend a disservice to a variety of underrepresented socioeconomic groups.