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Monday, September 22nd, 2014

Cuba Sees a Crisis, and Sends Docs; The US Sees an Opportunity and Sends Troops

Author:     DAVE LLINDORFF
Source:     Nation of Change
Publication Date:     Friday 19 September 2014
Link: Cuba Sees a Crisis, and Sends Docs; The US Sees an Opportunity and Sends Troops
Stephan:   This report is making a very important point. If, instead of pissing away trillions into warfare, and turning ourselves into a police state, we had spent hundreds of millions pursuing this form of nonviolent change, such as Cuba is doing, the world would love America, and we could enjoy the liberties we once had.

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How’s this for a juxtaposition on how nations respond to a global health catastrophe. Check out these two headlines from yesterday’s news:

Cuba to Send Doctors to Ebola Areas

US to Deploy 3000 Troops as Ebola Crisis Worsens

Reading these stories, which ran in, respectively, the BBC and Reuters, one learns that the Cuban government, which runs a small financially hobbled island nation of 11 million people, with a national budget of $50 billion, Gross Domestic Product of 121 billion and per capita GDP of just over $10,000, is dispatching 165 medical personnel to Africa to regions where there are ebola outbreaks, while the US, the world’s wealthiest nation, with a population of close to 320 million, a national budget of $3.77 trillion, GDP of $17 trillion, and per capita GDP of over $53,000, is sending troops — $3000 of them– to ‘fight” the ebola epidemic.

Okay, I understand that these troops are supposedly going to be ‘overseeing” construction of treatment centers, but let’s get serious. With an epidemic raging through Africa, where some of the poorest nations in the world are located, what is needed […]

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