Thousands of additional US troops are heading to Liberia, according to commander Major General Gary Volesky, the lead of the ongoing war on Ebola in western Africa.
Volesky praised the “great team” of troops being sent to Liberia, and vowed that the forces would “stamp out Ebola” across the region. The initially stated “war goal” was to build 17 treatment units in Liberia for the large number of Ebola patients.
The treatment units are supposed to be completed by December, but the latest indications are that the US military involvement there will not end with this construction.
The clearest indication of that is the Pentagon’s development of “isolation units” for its transport planes, which will allow the military to transport a number of Ebola patients per plane. The units are not expected to be deployed in the field until January at the earliest.
What, no drone strikes against Ebola?
So who's getting the contracts to build all these marvelous facilities in Africa? And why can't we get some decent infrastructure in the US/
CUZ legal AMERICANS DON'T COUNT..
Cuba is sending DOCTORS, thousands of them, Russia too and are also developing 3 vaccines ,while the US prepares to fight mosquitoes with bazooka´s, SOLDIERS against an infectous decease and why indeed not drones, B52`s and Agent Orange while at it? I´m sure everybody and even the chineese will buy that strategy in oil-rich Liberia…
What about these poor fellows stupid (or indeed poor enough ) who signed on to become an potential infected Zombie army?
Absolutely INSANE………..Get all of our POOR DUPED troops out of there NOW ! Close US borders..stop all airlines from AFRIKA..NOW
Overkill — Using an Empire that loves to kill
As fighting Ebola does not require the use of killing machines, an NGO without weapons being the best way to get the job done, why use a military that will go back to killing when this war is ending?
Someone thought they said brainlessness is next to Godliness I think.
To RickR30
You do seem to always put things in there proper perspective.
Thank you.
The troops are not really there to fight Ebola, it's just a pretext to get US troops and bases into Africa where they will remain for decades to come.
China has been making vast inroads economically into Africa for years while Bush 2 and his Israel Uber Alles crowd were preoccupied with all things Israel and the Middle East.
"the ongoing war on Ebola in western Africa"
Appears to have been said without the slightest trace of irony.