As we found out yesterday, Obama has made fighting Ebola the military’s number one priority and is pulling military personnel from counter-terrorism to deal with the virus.
Side question: Unless they’ve found a way to shoot a virus, what are 3,000 U.S. troops doing there?
Via CNS News:
President Obama said on Tuesday he is wasting no time in addressing a “global threat” that demands a “truly global response.” He was talking about disease, not terrorism.
Although the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is “spiraling out of control,” the world knows how to stop it from spreading, Obama said in remarks at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
“But we have to act fast. We can’t dawdle on this one. We have to move with force and make sure that we are catching this as best we can, given that it has already broken out in ways that we had not seen before.”