What is going on in the mind of President Obama? Why is
he sending U.S. military personnel to wage war on Ebola? Has he lost his ability
to reason? My concern, and I assure the reader it is shared by others, is that
these soldiers, who will be exposed to an environment where the virus is
prevalent, could bring it to the United States and potentially spread the malady
as they rotate back to America.
The American public is
being told that the deployed service members would be responsible for command,
control, logistics, civil affairs and medical assistance, even though U.S.
officials emphasized that their exposure to Ebola would be limited. Who of
right mind and sound reasoning actually believes exposure would be limited.
Does anyone really think in Washington and CDC? Apparently not.
This is a president who thinks like a community
organizer and portrays a commander-in-chief who takes his responsibility for
his military service members seriously. At a time when our military has been at
war for more than a decade, suicide among veterans is occurring at alarming
rates, PTSD is out of control and families are being destroyed as a result of decade
long wars. The last thing the president should be doing is sending soldiers,
airman, sailors and Marines into West Africa to fight Ebola.
The vast majority of deploying military
personnel do not possess the criteria to fight in an endemic setting. As
Douglas MacArthur once told West Point Cadets, “Your mission remains fixed,
determined and inviolable. It is to fight and to win the nation’s wars.” In
other words, the mission of the military is to fight wars not viruses.
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