Ebola Assistance, Or Military Invasion ???

There have been reports that US "aid" to Liberia is motivated not by concerns about Ebola but for military reasons. Here is one of them:

The main purpose of this military operation is not to halt the spread of Ebola or restore health to those that have been infected. Rather the United States is seeking to exploit the crisis to establish a firm footing on the African continent for AFRICOM, which was established in 2008 in order to oversee US imperialist operations in the region. AFRICOM currently operates from Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, thousands of miles from the nearest African country.

Liberia is the only country in Africa which has previously expressed interest in hosting AFRICOM headquarters. The Ebola epidemic provides a convenient excuse for the deployment of thousands of US troops and establishing a permanent presence.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/04/ebol-o04.html

Cuba sends doctors; we send the 101st Airborne Division.

Hmmm ...

Others claim that the US incursion into West Africa is related to oil:

One striking aspect of this new concern of the US President for the situation in Liberia and other west African states where alleged surges of Ebola are being claimed is the presence of oil, huge volumes of untapped oil.

The offshore coast of Liberia and [west] African ‘Ebola zones’ conveniently map with the presence of vast untapped oil and gas resources ...

The issue of oil in west Africa, notably in the waters of the Gulf of Guinea have become increasingly strategic both to China who is roaming the world in search of future secure oil import sources, and the United States, whose oil geo-politics was summed up in a quip by then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970’s: ‘If you control the oil, you control entire nations.’

http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-war-on-ebola-or-war-for-oil-sending-3000-troops-to-african-ebola-areas-that-happen-to-export-oil-to-china/5406142

Hmmm ...

If you will recall, after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake in 2010, the US sent troops and promised to spend lots of money helping them. As of today, the country is still devastated, and the money does not appear to have been well spent:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/haiti/140114/four-years-after-haiti-earthquake-aid-money

I don't know why we're really in Liberia, but one thing is for certain: the 101st Airborne Division will not be curing Ebola virus disease any time soon.