Thank both of you for your kind words.
All of us have tempers, all of us have subjects about which we have strong feelings, and sometimes those tempers and feelings make irrational leaps. Consistently defamatory posts, though, have always screamed “troll” to me. Both of you seem to know Ansel from the past, and think that he has made valuable contributions. If you say his trolling these ebola/military threads isn’t really indicative of who he’s been in the past, then that’s good enough for me.
No one is trolling the Ebola threads, and if you want to return to discussing the thread topic, then please do, assuming that is your purpose here.
In regards to the subject of this thread “”Ebola threat: Our military must be on front line of US fight, not on the sidelines””
If Ebola is the threat that many think it is, then we need to be doing what we can to end this outbreak.
We need to know that our military is competent, so far we have learned that no one in the civilian sector, from the government down to local hospitals has a clue, or seems to have ever had any interest in this stuff, or to have taken it seriously.
Contrary to what so many here seem to think, the military has always been deeply involved in this kind of thing and being able to survive and operate in the face of not only infectious disease, but even weaponized bio agents and carefully planned and delivered threats.