HMM: New U.S. operation flies thousands of U.S. soldiers and civilians to Liberia to fight the Ebola outbreak but the difficult mission may be too little too late.

Meanwhile, reader T.J. Linzy writes:

Remember all those gleeful reports of the military missing its recruiting targets, because no one wanted to go to Iraq or Afghanistan?

I have a terrible feeling the Ebola deployments really are going to cause a drop in recruitment.

As a volunteer veteran, the people I know were / are glad to go fight for the nation, but to be sent to fight an infectious disease when my government won’t even take the basic steps to stop the disease from entering the country? And being supported by an obviously distracted agency like the CDC?

Watch for an “unexpected” drop in military recruitment.

Hmm. Well, on the upside, the civilian economy isn’t hiring, so we’ve got that going for us.