[Dilbert San Diego]

While I can understand a humanitarian impulse to help deal with this outbreak, its hard to figure how Obama decides the military should do the job.

[colorado tanker]

While I can understand a humanitarian impulse to help deal with this outbreak, its hard to figure how Obama decides the military should do the job.

He hates the military. Always has.

[cripplecreek]

I just want to know what American troops are supposed to do when confronted by a desperate machete wielding mob? Will they be allowed to defend themselves? Will they face charges if they defend themselves?

[Georgia Girl 2]

All that’s going to happen is the troops will get Ebola. If the healthcare workers in hazmat suits are getting it you know our guys will get it.

[Responsibility2nd]

 

While I can understand a humanitarian impulse to help deal with this outbreak, its hard to figure how Obama decides the military should do the job.

Are you kidding? Even way before Obama began his occupation, the military became less than armed forces who fight wars.

They are now mostly about nation rebuilding and humanitarian relief efforts.

[oh8eleven]

its hard to figure how Obama decides the military should do the job.
Three thousand GIs get exposed to Ebola and bring it back to the US. That creates the largest/worst pandemic since 1918.
If you think I'm suggesting that Øbama hates America, the military, the citizens - you're right.

[DannyTN]

Who else does Obama control that could do the job. If they limit their activities to building facilities, delivering supplies and enforcing quarantines, they should be protected.

I think they should fund Africans to do as much work as possible. After all, the median wage there is just $200 a month. So they can hire a lot of people to enforce quarantines, and do other work. And their economy has been ravaged by the disease, so this would help in more ways than one, while keeping our men out of the danger zone.

[huldah1776]

Medics, Corpsmen, and many have riot training for marshall law. Don’t know how you can do all the building and keeping people out in hazmat gear. Plus the hazmat gear gets contaminated.

I was just wondering if the executive who gave this order has a strategy for containment or hopefully someone came up with one years ago in a sci-fi book.

[silverleaf]

they are the only Americans he can ORDER into the epicenter of a Biohazard 4 zone

He can't ORDER the CDC, the UN or the WHO to go- they aren't sending thousands (THOUSANDS) of people because they values those lives too much to risk them

Nor do they envision themselves enforcing (lethal force) a quarantine on infected Africans - cities and towns turned into prison camps for the infected, the dying and their families

He cant ORDER anyone else in his government or the world to go build “field hospitals” capable of meeting Biohazard 4 level protocols

Pressure suits for our troops deployed to a 3rd world equatorial zones. I think not. Can you see Bubble Boy as a sentry to guard against mobs and looters of a hastily constructed 1,700 bed hospital in the heart of Liberia - epicenter of an epidemic that could affect 22 million people? Ready for pictures of white US Army troops holding at gunpoint (or worse, shooting) desperate black Africans with babies in their arms? Or backing up Liberian soldiers as they do so? While the Army tries to be “House” and “Meals on Wheels” for people who could infect them with a touch

what could possibly go wrong

[keats5]

I think Obama intends for our military to institute martial law there, hence his focus on the military. So not only will they be exposed to this deadly virus, I believe they will be used by the West African government to restrain its own citizens, who are not co-operating with the quarantine requirements.