Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham Law’s Center on National Security, is quoted in Op Ed News discussing the U.S. response to Ebola.
As TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg points out today, given an administration already on the ropes over its new war in the Middle East, it would be all too easy for U.S. officials, amid the usual panic, to fall back on that comfortable template of the post-9/11 years, the war on terror, when it comes to Ebola. After all, it’s already enscribed in the DNA of a national security state that is, effectively, a shadow government. So no one should be surprised that Washington’s first response to the Ebola crisis was to militarize it.
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