Western Africa is already lost.

First check out this passage from a blog post from Shepherd of the Gurneys...

Most ominous development of all , Liberia has now banned all reporters from Ebola treatment centers:
"Journalists are no longer allowed to enter ETUs. These journalists enter the ETUs and cross red lines," Jackson, the deputy information minister, told listeners to commercial station Sky FM.The minister said he would insist that journalists report his statements from now on rather than what they saw for themselves.
Liberia's announcement came after soldiers prevented the media in Guinea from investigating the murders in September of eight people, including three journalists, during an Ebola education visit.
In Liberia, medics have been banned from communicating directly with the media, RSF said, while Sierra Leone has threatened to adopt draconian measures against journalists criticising its Ebola response.
Typical banana republic media relations: When you don't like the news, shut them up and kick them out. So, what would make them want to shut the press out?
Omoruto said the centre had been designed for a maximum capacity of 150 beds but had been forced to take in 300 patients.
Alphonso Wesseh, representing the clinic's healthcare workers, told AFP the government had refused to pay benefits for dealing with Ebola and salaries were as low as $250 a month.
"We cannot work under these conditions. We are risking our lives every day and the government remains insensitive to our plight. This is not human."
So they're already delivering sketchy care, and workers have largely fled, which indicates that the official reports are simply pure BS. So how stable are the governments?
The United Nations said on Friday it had quarantined 41 personnel from its Liberia mission, including 20 soldiers, following a second Ebola infection among its staff.
The measure came two days after the mission, known as UNMIL, announced an "international staff member" working in its medical department tested positive after complaining of symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus.
The healthcare workers have fled, the UN is overwhelmed, and the local governments are tightening freedoms as their control over events becomes even more tenuous.  Government spokesman Isaac Jackson made the announcement as he was questioned on a radio phone-in show about reporters being barred from covering a strike at a Monrovia Ebola treatment unit (ETU).                                                                                 "Most of the workers are no longer coming to work. The few ones who come don't work. We don't have the manpower needed to do the work here at the centre," director Atai Omoruto told reporters before the government clampdown.                                                        The [Liberian] government announced on Wednesday it was postponing nationwide senatorial elections which had been due on Tuesday next week, with no new date yet announced.

Are you getting the force of connection yet?

Is it sinking in for you?

The African continent is facing not an outbreak but an epidemic.  We're looking at failed states already.

The UN has quarantined 41 of its personnel...including medical staff!

Does this sound like something a Marine Corps SPMAGTF-CR can possibly cope with?  Does this sound like something the 101st Airborne can cope with?

If the answer is no then we have to ask.  Why are we sending them?

The various govts will not allow reporters to cover the sick.  Elections are being delayed.  Emergency/Dictatorial powers are being sought.  Its past time to accept the fact that Western Africa is lost and plan accordingly.  Like Shepherd of the Gurneys said (metaphorically)...the four horsemen have arrived in Africa and there is nothing we can do to stop them.