Instead of Implementing Travel Ban, Obama Sending National Guard Troops to Ebola-Infected West AfricaOctober 16, 2014 By Todd Cefaratti
One of the central problems with Barack Obama’s so-called “leadership” is that he fundamentally values things differently than the rest of most Americans. While most Americans would like a bolstering of economic opportunity, Obama crusades for a perverse brand of social justice that ensures equality of outcome, regardless of efforts or merit.
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Another problem is simply prioritization; while the majority of Americans want to see the border secured, Obama leads a band of radicals that would rather invite millions of illegals here to vote Democrat and augment the size and role of government.
While Americans want to see ISIS defeated, Obama does not recognize what millions of Americans do: that radical Islam poses a very-real threat to the Western World.
And on the issue of Ebola, most Americans want to feel safe from the deadly disease. However, President Obama invites Ebola into the U.S. by refusing to issue travel restrictions from West Africa where the deadly disease is rampant.
As if that were not bad enough, the President has also committed American troops to West Africa to combat the disease and then, presumably, will welcome back our American soldiers who were placed in harm’s way and who may then have contracted the infectious disease themselves.
On Thursday, President Obama issued yet another executive order that committed National Guard troops to West Africa to help fight the deadly disease. “I am authorizing the secretary of defense and the secretary of homeland security to order the selected reserve and certain members of the individual ready reserve to active duty to augment the active forces in support of Operation United Assistance, providing humanitarian assistance and consequence management related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the West Africa region,” Obama wrote in a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner.
“The authorities that have been invoked will ensure the Department of Defense can properly sustain the military operations required in this effort,” he added.
So, to recap: the President will not use troops in the combat capacity for which they have trained, but will use our National Guard abroad in order to aid West Africa.
Further, Obama’s move comes after trained healthcare professionals contracted the deadly disease by coming into contact with an Ebola patient. Still, rather than simply implementing a travel ban from these infected areas, Obama’s solution seems to be to send our American citizens into the disease-ridden area.
While it is certainly understandable to want to lend a hand in the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Obama’s flailing use of the American military indicates a shocking inability to grasp what the military is designed for and what they should be used for. |
