Personally I believe we’re asking for big trouble by sending in thousands of airborne unit combat troops to a country known as Liberia. Which according to some functionary appointed by “Obama The Magnificent Incompetent” are being sent there to help construct infastructure for a series of Ebola health clinics.
Liberia is a country created by former American slaves who’s capital,Monrovia,is named after an American President James Monroe. According to a report I heard from a local conservative talk show host which I could be wrong,(and truly hope so) reported. “The city has only 7 or 9 public toilets, and a mere 26 miles of fresh water piping.”
Right now the country has just gotten through a bitter civil war and seems to be the current epicenter of the Ebola outbreak that btw started after an infestation of caterpillars. I mention that because Sierra Leone where the epidemic originated from had the same experience.
Here is some of the other krap that is going on there;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212853/posts
grave digger strike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213168/posts
election canceled
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3199783/posts
doctors strike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211428/posts
malaria
While it’s obvious we gave this effort by former enslaved American citizens to return to the continent they were taken from meger attention and support following its creation than what should been given.
Under present circumstances we should be circumspective of the assistance we offer. Certainly sending combat units not equipted with the knowledge, training, or backgound to do what is needed. Placing them in harms way in an area where the likelyhood of contracting a deadly disease is pre eminent simply because it suits political symbolism is madness.
I read the same report here on FRee Republic.
Also , this is currently part of their "rainey season" .
Since the virus can live longer in heat and humidity , you have to wonder how safe is the water supply ,
or even waste water treatment to prevent further infection.
It is about 700 from the 101st, which isn’t really an
Airborne unit, it is Airmobile.
The 101st soldiers are going to be the Headquarters element
The 101st will supply 700 soldiers to what will be 3 to 4 thousand, they are half of the first 1400, (the other 700 being mostly engineers).
“About 300 of the troops from the 101st Airborne will come from the division headquarters, and they will serve as the Joint Force Command for the mission.”
“A 101st Airborne press release issued Tuesday evening stated the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Headquarters, Fort Campbell, will deploy as the Joint Force Command for Operation United Assistance in Monrovia, Liberia.
“Operation United Assistance is a critical mission,” said Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). “We will coordinate all of the Department of Defense resources in Liberia to support USAID and the government of Liberia to contain the Ebola virus and ultimately save lives.”
I do not think our troops’ duties include messing in rare virus control in very poorly set up places. I fear we are sending them to their doom, and maybe to the doom of their families when they return. And for nothing.
Let the researchers and aid workers and humanitarians work on this problem because this is what they do.
#stoptheflights
It's criminally irresponsible, IMO. The troops are not trained for this mission, and they're doing nothing that the West Africans couldn't do for themselves.