LETTERS

Quarantining America

Posted 10/28/14

To the Editor:

West African countries have been suffering an insidiously growing epidemic, which, through the recklessness of the President of the United States, may become a pandemic. In yet …

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LETTERS

Quarantining America

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To the Editor:

West African countries have been suffering an insidiously growing epidemic, which, through the recklessness of the President of the United States, may become a pandemic. In yet another blunder of an administration that seemingly cannot do anything right, Barack Obama should have prohibited travel visas to the United States for any West African nationals four months ago when the epidemic was first detected. Instead, the hapless president hesitated and underestimated the severity of the burgeoning problem and waited much too long to even address its containment.

As the numbers of the infected skyrocketed, the sensible initial step would have been to restrict travel of foreigners from the West African region of the continent to the States. However, the self-proclaimed “Citizen of the World,” Mr. Obama, send our military into the epidemic areas. Imperiling our troops to effectuate a task they were not trained for, his rationalization was that our soldiers were checked out on protocols regarding germ warfare. These are two distinctly different situations.

In a further nonsensical move, the president has appointed an Ebola czar who is a lawyer formerly on Vice President Biden’s staff. Perhaps the idea of appointing an infectious disease specialist doctor escaped his consideration.

It is our responsibility as a country to treat Americans that are sick. On the contrary, it is not our responsibility to put our citizens at risk to preserve some perverse sense of political correctness pertaining to unfortunates of another nation. The president needs to keep the promise of his oath and “protect and defend” the people he was elected to safeguard. His illogical series of missteps regarding this crisis inspires no one, helps few and endangers us.

Christopher M. Curran

West Warwick 

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