Triumph of Evil

"Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life. This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind," President George W Bush said. Radio Address 9/10/05

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
(Edmund Burke).

Good, as in good men, is a relative term of course. The water and wind certainly played their part, but the malice of evil men was in doing nothing.
Fixing the levees for instance.