Well, at least he got the troops out of Iraq. /s
So many potential gifts derived from this - almost feels like Christmas...
Gee, if only there was something we could spray that could kill the skeeters that carry Malaria?
Wait, we do. DDT which was banned because of that nut bag Carsons book based on non science and scare mongering.
The Nuclear Option: Ebola Mission Not Worthy of Our Troops
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by Charles Hurt 3 Oct 2014 460 post a comment
The world’s supply of experimental Ebola drug runs dry just as U.S. troops are deployed to West Africa by a commander-in-chief who has never appeared to have much use for the military as an actual military force. He has deployed them there to fight, in all seriousness, the Ebola virus.
A week later, the commander is pictured stepping off Marine One. He offers the Marines guarding him with their lives a lazy half-salute, not even bothering to remove the paper coffee cup from his right hand.
Can one be blamed for wondering if just maybe this president doesn’t like America’s armed forces? Or, perhaps the better question is: How can anyone claim that President Obama has the thinnest shred of respect for America’s warriors when he goes and does something like this?
Of course, he did not plan for the world’s supply of ZMapp to vanish just as he deployed troops into the single most devastating outbreak of Ebola in known history. But the idea that — even with all the real militaristic threats we face around the world — the president chooses to send 3,000 soldiers into Liberia to somehow combat a deadly, highly-contagious virus is beyond explanation.
We are told our soldiers are supposed to train medical personnel. For what, how to use a bayonet?
We are told our soldiers are supposed to help set up new medical facilities. So, we are going to take the finest, most lethally effective military in world history and send them into a petri dish of death to set up tables and cots?
Dear Lord, what an insult.
News flash to our gummint geniuses: Malaria has been a problem there since the Brits started exploring it around, oh, I dunno, say 1820. Pushing two centuries if I have the match right.
About 6 years ago I was a task force surgeon for a mission to Liberia.
My primary goal was to insure that not one of my troops get malaria. I checked daily to see who took their meds and who didn’t. If they didn’t I gave them the appropriate med on the spot.
Got back to Europe and not one caught malaria, in spite of spending 2 months on the ground.
That being said this mission is going to be a nightmare.