As Obama Leads Anti-Ebola Charge To Save Africa, Little Done About New Diseases Coming Up From Border

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Politics: Amid applause, President Obama has made fighting Ebola in Africa a military priority, to protect U.S. health. So why is he doing nothing about the raft of new diseases that may be rolling in from our unguarded border?

 

'We can't dawdle on this one," the president intoned this week, announcing that he would be putting 3,000 boots on the ground in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in a $600 million rescue effort for three nations badly hit by the dreaded Ebola epidemic.

 

"We have to move with force and make sure that we are catching this as best we can, given that it has already broken out in ways that we have not seen before."

 

And to make sure the whole effort seemed more about protecting the U.S. than the charity effort in a distant corner of the globe it is, he turned up the verbal panic knobs: "It's spiraling out of control. If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us."