Should Obama Reverse his Position and Stop Flights to Ebola Outbreak Countries -- like so many other countries have done (wage, border)

[nvxplorer]

Yes, the flights should be restricted. No-brainer.

[PedroMartinez]

#ebolagoaway

[Seabass Inna Bun]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Can you find a flight going to Liberia? I can't. A president can't stop all flights from a country.

He can, actually. All your airports shut down in 2001, remember?

Not that I think such drastic measures are called for in this instance.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun

He can, actually. All your airports shut down in 2001, remember?

Not that I think such drastic measures are called for in this instance.

Yes, they were US airports.

[revrandy]

Originally Posted by Goinback2011

Have you ever travelled abroad? There are these documents called passports that get stamped when you enter another country. If you hold a Liberian one, it clearly shows that.

No it does not. Some countries will not stamp your passport, others will stamp a piece of paper if the stamp in your passport will deny you entry into another country.

[Zapruder]

Obama: We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

[michiganmoon]

Originally Posted by KYBob

I believe that the Ebola patient flew from Africa to Europe, and then to the US. How would banning flights from Africa to the US have stopped the current situation?

Are you proposing that the world quarantine Africa?

Other countries have banned the region of Africa with the Ebola outbreak from arriving in their country. Countries like Nigeria and Britain.

For example, Britain would deny entry to someone flying from Liberia to Belgium and then on to London....Obama welcomes people flying from Liberia to Belgium and on in to Dallas.

[T-310]

Obama said that he wouldn't stop flights to/from Ebola outbreak countries so aid workers can flow freely to help.

The UN has its own planes. That argument is stupid.

Obama said that it was highly unlikely Ebola would find its way in to the US.

Like everything else he has said, he is wrong/lied.

[T-310]

Originally Posted by KYBob

Do you believe that would be a good thing? If so, why?

Obviously to the weakest mind out there, it would contain the disease.

[T-310]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Can you find a flight going to Liberia? I can't. A president can't stop all flights from a country. Think about the connecting flights, and stay overs in other courtiers. I think you have an over-inflated view of what presidents can and cannot control.

Bush shut down air travel domestic and international.

Saying he can't is a lie.