Though many officials see US military intervention as a panacea, there are some things massive military overspending can’t cure. Ebola is one of those things, experts warn.
It may sound obvious, but experts are actually feeling the need to warn that sending thousands of US ground troops to Liberia to build a few Ebola treatment centers doesn’t mean Ebola’s going to stop being a thing.
Not that building the treatment centers isn’t a nice thing to do, in and of itself, but with the US intervention almost entirely logistical in nature, and with almost no medical personnel involved, there are serious limits to what can be expected of the operation.
Indeed, the Pentagon’s harsh quarantine standards for US troops may actually end up making the intervention counter-productive, according to some experts, who say that if their standards are adopted elsewhere it could serious limit the amount of actual doctors and nurses able to get to West Africa.
To whom it may concern in the Obama regime:
Please, in the name of humanity, do not declare war on Ebola.
Statistically every problem since 1945 you declared war on (war on drugs, poverty, etc), indeed all of your undeclared wars of violence, were total losers. Do not do this to mankind; just continue your fine efforts to help, but no official declarations of war.
Thank you.
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At some point the Army will quietly announce that they are moving Africa Command from Germany to Liberia. The US has never cared about Africans except to enslave them. Why should anyone think that has suddenly changed?
If they wanted to stop Ebola they would've dispatched the Navy's hospital ships months ago.