Posted on 09/08/2014 11:27:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he will be sending members of the U.S. military to West Africa to help in the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which has claimed over 2,100 lives.
"We're going to have to get U.S. military assets just to set up, for example, isolation units and equipment there to provide security for public health workers surging from around the world," Obama said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The president insisted that the situation in West Africa remains a serious national security concern. International medical organizations such as Doctors Without Borders have reportedly petitioned to the White House and explained the urgency of the outbreak.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also sounded the alarm last week and noted that the virus, which has mainly affected Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and has also spread to Nigeria, is "spiraling out of control."
CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden said in an interview that a number of countries have "turned their backs" on those coming from the countries that have been hit hardest by the outbreak. He added that the restrictions on flights and border crossings that have been established are also hindering relief efforts.
"This is making it really hard to get help in and to respond effectively to the outbreak," Frieden told CNN.
"What we're seeing is a ... hugely fast increase in cases that's harder and harder to manage. The more we can get in there and tamp that down, the fewer cases we'll have in the weeks and months to come."
While Obama said that it is unlikely that the virus will spread to the U.S. in the short term, he warned that the disease could threaten the U.S. in the future.
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Back then, people would have taken the train. That needs to be factored into the equation.
Nov. 2016 and you might have a point.
A Secretary of Defense with any kind of integrity would hold a press conference and resign. This is ridiculous.
We have a non American citizen in the White House.
We have a government in Washington that willingly tramples on the United States Constitution.
They send the military into warzones with ROEs that effectively set them up as walking targets.
They knowingly refuse to defend our borders.
And now they want to send the Military into a Death Zone to get infected with a deadly communicable disease. Not to defend the Nation, but to allow the head Golfer to win some sort of brownie points amongst the liberal crowd.
Would it even be a lawful order? I mean, it's one thing to have to fight a human enemy. At least you'd have protective gear and weaponry to protect yourself with. But to be deliberately exposed to a deadly disease without the ability to seriously protect yourself from infection...why that's just plain crazy, and in my opinion unlawful. Not to mention the potential of bringing the disease back home to infect others? I'd tell Obama to go pound salt.
This is all sheer insanity.
OT but we are watching faux news. They just had an urgent breaking news alert about a football player
This is not worthy of a fox news alert!
His friend just turned 18 and had to do the paperwork and so will he
He doesn’t really care about anyone.
Just destroying everything he can
Filter all his actions and inactions through that lens and it fits.
It’s no coincidence he was reading ‘The Post-American World’ prior to inauguration.
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Agreed.
Obama is trying to destroy the military. No one will enlist. The US military is not the Peace Corps.
Obama must be smarter than I am because I dont see how breaking things and killing people will help.
My 3 sons registered in the 80s.
It’s the law.
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REVOLT.
It’s time for our military and CIA to arrest this imposter and dump him in Indonesia.
Congress needs to disallow the use of our troops in the Ebola mess.
If they don’t they are accessories.
Using soldiers to fight Ebola. I wonder why nobody else thought of that. He’s a genius.
Gotta love the headline...
Not sure how the troops are going to “Help Ebola Epidemic”......
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