Connecting the dots . . . national security and ebola

   After a long silence, but for the one moment when the National Security Council representative said the equivalent of "gee, this Ebola thing is bad in West Africa," President Obama has taken action. Connecting the collapse of these nations and their economies affected with Ebola to a threat to global security, President Obama took action.  The WashingtonTimes reported Tuesday that the U.S. would deploy 3,000 American troops to build treatment centers.

“It’s spiraling out of control, it’s getting worse, it’s spreading faster and exponentially,” Mr. Obama said of the epidemic while touring the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention in Atlanta. “The world is looking to us, the United States. It’s a responsibility that we embrace.”

Mr. Obama said the crisis is a national-security threat to the U.S. because “we could be looking at hundreds of thousands” of dead if the epidemic gets worse, which could lead to governments and societies collapsing.

“It’s a potential threat to global security if these countries break down, if their economies break down, if people panic . . .”