Same old story. Everyone bitches about the United States and Europe running around and meddling in other places on the globe. Then the s**t hits the fan, and everybody wants the west to come running in to save the day.
The Onion headline has it covered:
Experts: Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away
Yup, Ebola isn't a problem. Easy to contain. No worries about it spreading beyond a few backward countries in West Africa. Really hard for health workers to catch it...right.
Didn't even have to watch FRONTLINE tonight (PVRed to watch tomorrow) to know that the hubris displayed a month ago in this thread was overlooking the fact that even CDC was pretty worried about how this current crisis is only going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Will the Saudi's cancel the Hajj this year?
There are people that believe it is a means for population control in Africa.
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels" (Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund, quoted in "Are You Ready for Our New Age Future?" Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December 1995)
"The common strategy for dealing with rapid population growth should encourage constructive actions to lower fertility since population growth over the years will seriously negate reasonable prospects for the sound social and economic development of the peoples involved.
While the time horizon in this NSSM is the year 2000 we must recognize that in most countries, especially the LDCs, population stability cannot be achieved until the next century. There are too many powerful socio-economic factors operating on family size decisions and too much momentum built into the dynamics of population growth to permit a quick and dramatic reversal of current trends. There is also even less cause for optimism on the rapidity of socio-economic progress that would generate rapid fertility reduction in the poor LDCs than on the feasibility of extending family planning services to those in their populations who may wish to take advantage of them. Thus, at this point we cannot know with certainty when world population can feasibly be stabilized, nor can we state with assurance the limits of the world's
ecological "carrying capability". But we can be certain of the desirable direction of change and can state as a plausible objective the target of achieving replacement fertility rates by the year
2000." - (Henry Kissinger, National Security Adviser, Quoted in "National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests," December 10, 1974)
Where do those idiot conspiracy theorists get their ideas?