Government Incompetence Dealing with Ebola

In the piece I read titled God Help Us, written by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, he was talking about how instead of sending our troops to the ever growing threat of ISIS, we are sending them to West Africa to combat this deadly virus.
I would say that this is a scare piece for sure, but I agree completely with this article. Our troops are receiving 4 hours of training, and there roles that they will play there aren't entirely clear. Reynolds make strong arguments that our troops are more than likely going to be infected and will bring it back home to us. This is extremely frightening considering we don't know everything about this virus, and we are using experimental drugs, that we aren't sure will work, and I'm sure they aren't sure of what the side effects will be.
Reynolds starts the article off by pointing out that by sending ground troops to Iraq/Syria to deal with ISIS, we would make a huge impact on their caliphate. There is no doubt in my mind that there is where our troops should be, we should be fighting side by side with the Kurds, just like we did in Iraq. We need to deal with that virus head on.
You can view the article here USA Today