The reason we are getting involved is because the civilians are overwhelmed and breaking down and dying from lack of supplies and equipment and the exact kind of help that we are delivering to them.
You got mixed up, the civilians weren’t handling it.
We are filling the gaps that they needed filled.
Missionary work is preaching, teaching, healing, building, nurturing. We do not ask missionaries nor Peace Corp workers etc to kill or police areas and in the same divide we should not ask out troops to do missionary jobs nor nation build. There has to be a very necessary mental and physical separation between these two for both to succeed in their missions. One is for killing the other for healing. To do otherwise can bring significant mental health harm to those involve which I'm sure the Chaplian has seen way too much of.
This isn't telling a suffering nation you're on your own. There are world wide relief agencies both government and others which are private that are non military and should handle this. In the mean time POTUS tells nationals from these nations to come on to the United States for treatment and spread it around while our troops deployed there may never see their home again. There is no inoculation for this.