Here's an excerpt from Thomas Sowell's latest column: "There was a time
when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually
unanimous agreement that our top priority should be to keep it overseas.
Yet Barack Obama has refused to bar entry to the United States by
people from countries where the Ebola epidemic rages, as Britain has
done.
The reason? Refusing to let people
with Ebola enter the United States would conflict with the goal of
fighting the disease. In other words, the safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas.
As if to emphasize his
priorities, President Obama has ordered thousands of American troops to
go into Ebola-stricken Liberia, disregarding the dangers to those troops
and to other Americans when the troops return.
What does this say about Obama?
At a minimum, it suggests that he takes his conception of himself as a citizen
of the world more seriously than he takes his role as President of the
United States. At worst, he may consider Americans' interests expendable
in the grand scheme of things internationally. If so, this would
explain a lot of his foreign policy disasters around the world, which
seem inexplicable otherwise."
(Cartoon by Gary Varvel)
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