President Barack Obama's dispatching of U.S. troops overseas to help fight the Ebola crisis is an insult to the military, according to Charles Hurt, a columnist for The Washington Times.
"You wait until the first of them start getting sick and it's going to be a nightmare of the likes of which we've never seen before," Hurt said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"It’s almost like if you wanted to insult the military, if you wanted to do something to thumb your nose at the military of which you were the commander in chief....
"I cannot think of … a greater slap in the face in doing something like this. It's mind boggling and it's inexplicable. It just doesn't make sense."
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