The US Military Is Going to Africa to Fight Ebola. Here's What It's Up Against. -- Mother Jones
The virus isn't the only threat troops will face.
On Tuesday, the White House officially announced that it would be sending US troops to Liberia to fight the Ebola outbreak. The military has already requested to use $500 million from its Overseas Contingency Operations budget to deal with Ebola in West Africa and ISIS in Iraq, and plans to request another $500 million to combat the epidemic, which United Nations officials have said is needed to keep the number of cases in the "tens of thousands." (So far, the World Health Organization is aware of about 5,000 people who it believes have been infected in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, although it says the actual toll is probably much higher.)
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My Comment: The U.S. military personnel that are going to Africa to assist in trying to contain the epidemic are mostly engineers, medical specialists, and support staff. The fears is .... what happens if the situation deteriorates and the governments in the region start to go to extreme measures like declaring Martial Law. Will U.S. forces be involved? What will be their rules of engagement? These questions and many more are now rising .... and no one from the White House or the Pentagon is answering them.
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Conventional US History's interpretation of the run up to WWII is that a US oil embargo (i.e. sanctions) were one domino in a chain that led to Japan's and US going to war. Hopefully that is not what we have here.
Alex,
What was the alternative.
The embargo was in response to decades long Japanese aggression in China.
What are the criteria for embargoing or not embargoing?
If you do not embargo what can you do in its' stead?
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