Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

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His history is somewhat correct but the conclusion he draws from it is in error.

“We have a responsibility to stay connected with them, and help them see this through.”

It does not follow that because we have an historical connection with Liberia (what about the other effected countries?) and the fact America has greater technical capacity than Liberia to deal with Ebola, it does not follow we ought allow the disease to possibly spread beyond its current locations. In that way lies madness. Liberia and the other nations can be helped without risking the spread of the disease beyond West Africa.

I would also like to ask: why just us? Isn't this a worldwide concern? Where are the UN and the other countries of the world sending in their troops, their medical and aid personnel? It might be happening but not on the scale demanded of the US. Liberia may have been created by us, though with good intent, but it was the nations of Europe which conducted the slave trade and colonized Africa. So where are they?

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3

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Also where are the Moslem nations. The European slave trade would not have existed without Moslem slavers rounding up Africans and delivering them to waiting European slave ships at ports on the west coast of Africa

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