Kerry Lauds Obama for Handling Ebola: He ‘Took a Risky Decision’

“At this time last year, I remember this because we talked about it here, experts were predicting that the Ebola virus was going to kill a million or more people by Christmas of last year. Again, President Obama led an effort at the United Nations to bring people together. He took the risky decision without knowing all of the consequences and all of what was happening but on the basis of our healthcare expert advice, we sent several thousand American troops and put them on the ground to build the capacity to be able to respond to this crisis.

And together with partners around the world, France, Great Britain particularly, the China, Japan, others all joined in, we built a broad coalition of actors to educate the public, isolate the stricken and stop the spread of the virus, spelling the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of people.”