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(60,364 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 08:54 AM Sep 2014

Cartoon for September 22, 2014: U.S. Invades Ebola

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ted-rall/58467/cartoon-for-september-22-2014-u-s-invades-ebola

Cartoon for September 22, 2014: U.S. Invades Ebola
Foreign Policy
by Ted Rall | September 22, 2014 - 6:01am

When the Ebola crisis struck in West Africa, other countries, like Cuba, sent in doctors. Not the United States. Repeating a worrisome trend we saw in Haiti after the earthquake and in Asia after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the U.S. sent in armed troops to subjegate the victim population.