Thursday, October 16, 2014

"Obama May Send National Guard to Liberia to Fight Ebola: Sources"

"President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order Thursday paving the way for the deployment of National Guard forces to Liberia to help contain the Ebola outbreak there, sources told NBC News."
The sources said that eight engineers and logistical specialists from the Guard, both active-duty and reservists, would probably be included in the first deployment. They are expected to help build 17 Ebola treatment centers, with 100 beds apiece. The sources said that no decision had been made.
Policy via trial balloons?

In light of how Obama has postponed controversial aspects of ObamaCare until after the midterms, including promised unilateral action, vis-à-vis the "undocumented", would it be fair to ask why is Ebola rushing Obama? Why cant Ebola wait it's turn, until after the election, like everybody else?

Meanwhile, the CDC Frieden testifying before congress today trotted out a Pelosism, as a rational for why we haven't curtailed Ebola Air from West Africa.

27 comments:

The Dude said...

He truly is insane.

Everyone who voted for this lunatic needs to be held accountable.

Unknown said...

We must stop flights or at least require quarantine.

Obama won't budge and he's willing to place lives at risk in the name of political correctness.

Trooper York said...

What the fuck?

Put the National Guard at the borders to protect us from these foreigners carrying diseases for fucks sake. How many children are going to die from this new disease that theses illegal spread before America wakes up?

They flew them on commercial flights to spread that disease too! It is a pattern.

Trooper York said...

Obama is ginnig up a crises to take more power into his hands.

Who is going to stand up to him? Boner in the House? That duckweed majority leader in the Senate? The Supreme "it's a tax so it is ok" Court?

Who?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Who?

All those generals purged from the military... makes you wonder.

Trooper York said...

Of course it does. Did these guys just start to have affairs or is that something that had gone on for along time until it was time to get Obama's guys in charge? Was this just an excuse to get the right people in charge of or military?

When our embassy was under attack and our ambassador was being murdered......our brave soldiers were ready to go to the rescue to try and save them they might have been too late but they desperately wanted to try. They were told to stand down.

They obeyed orders.

Trooper York said...

Will they be told to stand down again? Because of a medical crises?

Will they obey orders?

ricpic said...

Reporter: Is Ebola racisss?

Hussein: I'll make Ebola fair by infecting Americans!

Reporter: And how will you protect the Americans in our Baghdad embassy?

Hussein: When surrounded by ISIS they will all convert to glorious Islam on my order!!

Calypso Facto said...

"is that something that had gone on for along time until it was time to get Obama's guys in charge?"

Bing bing bing! We have a winner! Exhibit A, Petraeus, especially after a demotion to Afghanistan didn't knock the luster off. Then Obama used the FBI to knock that "luster" out of a job.

Trooper York said...

It is all so obvious but if you point it out you are a conspiracy nut.

Why this continual build up of our military forces to fight Ebola?

Who are they the fucking Viet Cong?

Trooper York said...

They are manufacturing a crises that they will use to curtail our civil liberties. Watch and see.

Fr Martin Fox said...

When the radio woke me up early this morning, I heard whoever it was say something like, President Obama cancelled his prior schedule to hold an emergency cabinet meeting on Ebola...

My mostly-not-awake response was, "oh ****!"

I know a lot of people reacted the same way, whether they admit it or not.

Fr Martin Fox said...

That said, I am not overly worried. Not because of my confidence in the President, but because, thankfully, it's not all about him.

Lots of other people, not to mention limitations to the infection, stand in the way of something to worry about.

Leland said...

I don't expect anyone to ask this, so it won't be answered, but what does anyone expect the national guard to do to stop ebola in west Africa? I realize they could provide police serves when such native units suffer loses from the illness. They can provide some medical experience from those few trained as medics. And they might be able to provide some basic civil services.

But overall, the National Guard guards, which is to say their expertise is violence not infection control. With that expertise, the best attribute is to physically stop the spread by enforcing isolation. If they do that job there, then why act like we can't prevent air travel from there? If enforcing isolation isn't their job, then they are the wrong tool for the US to send to stop Ebola.

AllenS said...

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. -- President Kennedy

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the spreading of a disease of man. -- President Obola

Unknown said...

"We must pass ebola to find out what is in it."

--Nancy Ebola

Lydia said...

I've been wondering why UN peacekeeping troops aren't there rather than sending our own troops. Well, just found this, from Sept. 4:

In a sign of the seriousness of the threat [of Ebola], U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council that he wants to delay the gradual drawdown of the U.N. Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which was established in 2003 to help Liberia through a vexing transition from civil war to democracy.

Several governments with police and troops serving in the U.N. mission are worried about the risk of infection to their nationals, informing U.N. peacekeeping planners that they are weighing whether to pull out, U.N. officials told Foreign Policy.


So much for the international community riding to the rescue.

Amartel said...

Fr. Martin, I read that yesterday. Obama cancels fundraiser. Uh oh, things must be serious. ly going wrong for Obama.

Chip Ahoy said...

what does anyone expect the national guard to do to stop ebola in west Africa?

Build seventeen 100-bed ebola stations, if not actual clinics.

Organize the distribution of supplies, chiefly hazmat suits, chlorine decontamination units, sheets, lots of sheets and bedding. And plenty of Bic lighters, I suppose.

Trooper York said...

Ask yourself some questions. They are making a big deal out of this nurse that flew after she was exposed to the virus. When they start to trace the people who were exposed I have no doubt that they will restrict their travel. Or demand that they clear their travel plans.

Remember what happened when one Keystone Kops douche bag tried to blow up a plane with his shoes? Ever since then 90 year old grandmothers have to go barefoot in airports. What kind of overreaction will the government come up with because of this deadly virus. Not to keep us safe. But to control us.

Trooper York said...

Soon enough you will have to file your travel plans with the TSA. I mean what is the big deal? Pilots have to file flight plans. Why not the passengers. I mean the government needs to know. Just to keep us safe.

The Dude said...

Their main purpose is to speed up the spread of Ebola when they get home.

Thousands of additional vectors, potentially a million more cases here, so from Obama's standpoint - win win - the military is rendered less effective, the health system is destroyed, Americans die and democrats rule in perpetuity.

Sadly, if ordered to report to Monrovia, the troops will go. That breaks my heart. They deserve to serve under better commanders.

KCFleming said...

If only the Rethuglicans had given the CDC a billion more dollars, we would be far better prepared to fight the virus that we shouldn't be worried about.

Christy said...

It's not the CDC's fault, it's those darned TV and movie scriptwriters who wrote all the CDC super-doctors who come in and save the day.

Turtles all the way down.

Leland said...

Their main purpose is to speed up the spread of Ebola when they get home.

I'm having a hard time seeing how that won't in fact happen.

Karen of Texas said...

Guess what is being fast-tracked? Vaccinations against the virus. That's right. Not zmapp, the experimental drug that saved the doc and nurse. Have to be sick for that. But a vaccine? Talk about a money maker. 7 billion people will need that puppy before Prez Incompetent is done.

chickelit said...

Sadly, if ordered to report to Monrovia, the troops will go. That breaks my heart. They deserve to serve under better commanders.

Me too, sixty.