Prez IWonPenPhone is adamant that there will be no ground troops evah to deal with the un-Islamic-non-State Jr. Varsity ISIS but he is quick to commit 3,000 combat troops to Africa to deal with ebola.
Hospitals and clinics in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — the countries hit hardest by the outbreak — are overwhelmed by what the WHO is calling the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.
The virus has killed at least 2,400 people, and thousands more are infected. And there are now cases in Nigeria and Senegal.
“The number of new cases is increasing exponentially,” the WHO said, calling the situation a “dire emergency with … unprecedented dimensions of human suffering.”
On Tuesday, President Obama will announce that more help is on the way. He’ll visit the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a briefing on the outbreak.
The U.S. efforts already under way to fight Ebola are considered more extensive than any previous American response to an epidemic. […]
Working through the Defense Department, the United States will plan and construct treatment centers that could house up to 1,700 additional beds. With a U.S. general leading the effort from Monrovia, American military personnel in the region could increase by 3,000, administration officials say, under the name Operation United Assistance.
Not that this is much of a surprise. The Left is notorious for using, or creating, crises — Global Warming, fracking, ZPG, whales, polar bears, wage “inequality”, etc — as the measure of Moral Good.
Fighting evil that can shoot back is none of their concern.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
II
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
III
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
IV
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
V
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
VI
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Every person we save is one less zombie to fight.
The left loses on issues of national defense, that is why they created “global warming” to be their 9-11.
How do you shoot an ebola?
aim for the head duh
Ask President Threeputt. It’s probably a five-iron.
OT: California’s Weed-smoking habit is totally out of control
that’s such an awesome lil town i hope it’s ok I don’t even wanna read the article
it’s one of those places what feels like America and freedom and possibility
if this is truly a crisis than listening to some UN piece of shit is an incredibly unwise thing to do
we need someone with genuine demonstrated competence to take charge
I nominate China
Don’t worry, it’s NBC so they work a fey Palin slam into the lead paragraph. They must need the money too. All those nasty people have to be kept down or civilization will fail.
i don’t get it about the NBC lead par thing are you sure you have the right link
Maybe the part about the bowling alley?
Oh, wait: “I can see Mount Shasta from my house!”
But I’ve been to that town. She can.
i’m so confuzzled
yes yes yes you can see mt. shasta it’s the main attraction
not the fucking bowling alley
i do not however believe that Sarah Palin is involved
In Weed you can almost see Mount Shasta from inside a suitcase stashed in a closet in the basement.
who knew that “weed” burns?
Probably those same people that think fire melts steel.
i believe in crystal light cause i believe in ME
so ME made weed burn via magnifying glass tsk tsk
Tina Fey, I can see Russia from my back porch, which is now thought , incorrectly, to be what Palin said because the media made the lie stick by repeating it over and over.
Conservatives are smarter and better informed because we know who really said it.
tina fey is a pretentious cunt
not unlike barack obama really
I don’t know….frankly Ebola scares me more than ISIS……
ebola makes your nipples bleed
how can that be a good thing?
them chinesers better get on the stick
Ebola is rampant in the same region as Boko Haram who have also declared their own Caliphate. I’m trying not to imagine the effect of a high explosive laden, infectious, suicide bomber on a crowded area of Lagos would be. Lots of medium and high speed blood spatter plus other bodily fluids lifted high in the lovely blue sky and carried by the wind.
please please please can we play the new U2 as the soundtrack?
The Chinese would manage the situation by killing anybody with a fever. Consequently the infected would take off into the bush.
I don’t see how that would be good for containing this outbreak.
Which they’re already having trouble containing because people are afraid to go the hospital on account of so many people who go the hospital die there.
Sure, it’s faulty cause and effect, but that’s Africa.
americans will piss on themselves more in incompetence than fear and then pin medals on the survivors
after which Alan Greenspan’s whore will host a very special look at “those who sacrificed” on MSNBC
and… EBOLA!
oh most noble Chinesers.
Years ago you served our fathers in the Clone Wars.
Now we beg you to help us in our struggle against the Ebola.
This is our most desperate hour.
Help us, most noble and competent Chinesers.
You’re our only hope.
Crepe soled snakes on the ground.
Rubber chickens on the table.
Howdy Doody in the big house.
dude.
cynical much?
The skin is tasty but it needs more cheese.
Concrete curds, we’ll build a world.
letting darkness grow!
we need its palette
and we need its color
America!
The skin is tasty but it needs more cheese.
There’s more cheese for you, more cheese for me.
Cause theyes the texmen, yeeah theyses the texmen.
I’m a run and get more chips so we can make queso
i never met anyone in L.A. what knows what ro*tel is btw
you can get it from Ralph’s here
but I can’t figure out who besides me buys it
– Fuck the Left and the crisis they rode in on.
– This must be Obama’s equivalent to the inimitable “rubber chicken”.
-Retired Colonel David Hunt made the point that our Military is the best at seeing that medical supplies reach their intended targets. He may have a point that they’re the best at seeing this kind of effort be efficient.
-It seems to me that this is an American national security issue. We don’t want Ebola coming here.