The Obama Three Stooges Response To Ebola. The Answer Is That NO ONE In The Administration Really Knows What To Do! We Should Panic!

EBOLA MISSION: WHO'S ON FIRST?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah lists reasons not to heed Obama's 'don't panic' mantra

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The Ebola epidemic is without doubt the greatest worldwide health crisis of the 21st century.

And what is Barack Obama’s strategy?

It can be summarized in two words: “Don’t panic.”

I don’t know about you, but when someone tells me not to panic, but is doing nothing to deal with the problem, I start getting panicky.

This “don’t panic” mantra from the Obama administration is absurd on so many levels:

• It paralyzes public-health policymakers from taking the steps necessary to avoid disaster – steps like doing something about a wide-open border, curtailing the influx of unscreened illegal aliens who are being shipped to all 50 states to spread disease, restricting airline travel to and from countries where the epidemic is raging and thinking through the nonsensical idea sending thousands of U.S. military personnel into the hot zone.
• The stories the administration is pedaling to maintain the calm, cool, collected façade are breaking down every day, such as when the general in charge of the military operation in West Africa explains what soldiers will be doing and is then contradicted by Pentagon officials who march him out with a new version of reality.
• When we’re told over and over again how difficult it is to contract Ebola and then see American health-care workers, wearing full-protective gear, getting the virus, it actually leads to a breakdown in confidence that the situation is under control.

I could go on and on, but let me focus on the military role in fighting Ebola in West Africa.

On the surface, it makes no sense to commit soldiers to do a non-soldiering job in containing an epidemic. When the administration is grilled on the specifics of what the military mission is it speaks only in vague generalities – and, even then, it contradicts itself.

I know my news agency has pressed very hard for the details of why we are opening the door to the potential of much greater exposure for thousands of Americans untrained in fighting Ebola – exposure that will eventually be brought home in the form of the deadly virus.

The commitment of military forces anywhere in the world should prompt a lively public debate. But it is impossible to have an informed debate when the mission is so murky. Why should we believe the administration knows what it is doing when it can’t even get its story straight?

A week ago we watched Gen. David Rodriguez march out to face reporters on the military mission. Previously, WND staffers were assured Rodriguez understood the mission. But when he got out there he contradicted what the administration had previously stated unequivocally – that U.S. soldiers would not have direct contact with Ebola victims. He told reporters U.S. soldiers would work alongside Liberian soldiers to staff mobile medical labs that will test people for Ebola.

Within hours, the Pentagon contradicted him, saying U.S. military lab technicians would only be testing specimen samples from suspected Ebola victims.

Pardon me, but if Gen. Rodriguez doesn’t clearly understand the mission, who does?

Is that not a good question?

More than a week later, we still don’t have an answer.

On top of that, why would the U.S. military need to be involved in testing Ebola specimens? How does that fit their job description?

There is a military mission for the U.S. right now. It’s in the Middle East where ISIS is slaughtering civilians, capturing Americans and other foreigners and beheading them. But Obama wants nothing to do with using military forces, other than an insufficient air campaign, for that military mission. Instead, he wants to send thousands of trained soldiers, many of whom are itching to fight a fight they are trained for, to Liberia where they will test medical specimens. How does this make any sense? It’s irresponsible.

Not that I am eager to send any soldiers anywhere under the command of Barack Obama. He is not fit to command. And his idea of sending military units to Liberia for a non-military mission is just one more proof.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/ebola-mission-whos-on-first/#ujBB1ObkILpV67oV.99