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Peggy Noonan, as usual, wrote a clear, concise column in the Wall Street Journal, describing the current state of the Ebola crisis in Africa and its threat to the U.S.

 

Titled, “Who Do They Think We Are?” Ms Noonan’s article claims that, “The administration’s Ebola evasions reveal its disdain for the American people.”

 

She writes that, “During an interview of Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, by Fox News' Megan Kelly, “Dr. Frieden replied that limiting travel between African nations would slow relief efforts. “If we isolate these countries, what’s not going to happen is disease staying there. It’s going to spread more all over Africa and we’ll be at higher risk.”

 

When later in the interview, Ms. Kelly noted that we still have airplanes coming into the U.S. from Liberia, with passengers expected to self-report Ebola exposure, Dr. Frieden responded: “Ultimately the only way—and you may not like this—but the only way we will get our risk to zero here is to stop the outbreak in Africa.”

 

Ms. Kelly said yes, that’s why we’re sending troops. But why can’t we do that and have a travel ban? 

 

The reply was, “If it spreads more in Africa, it’s going to be more of a risk to us here. Our only goal is protecting Americans—that’s our mission. We do that by protecting people here and by stopping threats abroad. That protects Americans.”

 

To that, Ms Noonan stated that, “Dr. Frieden’s logic was a bit of a heart-stopper. In fact his responses were more non sequiturs than answers. We cannot ban people at high risk of Ebola from entering the U.S. because people in West Africa have Ebola, and we don’t want it to spread. Huh?”

 

Therefore, this is another situation where the administration has no clue or capability to deal with a tragic crisis. However, rather than seeking a rational, straightforward solution, the first response as always, is to confuse the issue, cover their ineptitude and attempt to find some way to blame someone else for their shortcomings.

 

Yet, as illogical as the administration’s approach to Ebola is, they still found a way to make things even worse whereas Fox News reports that Ron Klain has been made “czar” for dealing with response to the disease. 

 

Klain, “rose to fame as the chief Democratic lawyer in the 2000 Florida recount, is a political fixer and not an expert in epidemiology or public safety,” Which means, “we can assume that President Obama sees a political problem that needs to be fixed.” 

 

So, once again, regardless of the significant threat posed by the disease and its potential disastrous effect on the nation, the incumbent’s first, and perhaps only, concern is the political outcome.

 

Charles Krauthammer summed the situation up on “Special Report with Bret Baier” this way: “We just heard the head of the CDC [Dr. Tom Frieden] say that we track all the visitors coming in. We couldn’t even track a nurse who treated [Eric Duncan] all the way to Cleveland and we’re going to be assured that a Guyana coming in here is going to be tracked? This is absurd.”

 

And, once again, Mr. Krauthammer’s absolutely correct.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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