obama authorizes national guard deployment to west africa because ebola
sending the national guard to "fight the outbreak"? with what? little tiny guns that shoot purell at individual viruses? what could he possibly be thinking? let's take a look at what will actually happen if guardsmen are sent to africa:
1) a bunch of national guardsmen will contract ebola, okay? let's just be realistic about that... and remember, we're still at the 50/50 point with this disease. half the people who get it die, not because we have no treatment, but because the virus is moving faster than our medicine. national guardsmen aren't thoroughly trained in medical care or quarantine protocol. so what are they gonna do? they're just going to go over there with gigantic guns and stand around making the problem worse, which leads me to point
2) a bunch of africans are going to get killed by national guardsmen and/or bunch of guardsmen will be killed by african patriots. if they'll kill american doctors for trying to teach them how to cut transmission rates, they'll run up on a guardsman no doubt. africans already think ebola is being brought by America the BigBad for some nefarious purpose. imagine how they'll react when they start seeing american military personnel clomping around their villages with gigantic guns.
oh, and you know that word in front of "guardsman"? it's "national". "national guard"... as in guarding the nation. those troops aren't supposed to ever leave american soil. they're meant to guard... defend... the united states from within her own borders. they're never supposed to be sent away, not one of them. we need them all here, all the time. the president should either send the army or consider non-military responses, and if he's bound by treaty not to send his army, that doesn't mean he should turn around and send ours.
this is not what the United States National Guard is for.
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