If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
There's a strain of Asian avian influenza out there which quite a few medical authorities think has the potential of blowing up into a global pandemic, because it has the unpleasant feature of being able to infect (and, distressingly, kill -- it has a 50% fatality rate) people and people are coming down with it in little groups all over Asia.
Various european (and ex-european colonies) have been discussing what to do about this flu, because a repeat of the 1918 influenza epidemic is not exactly the sort of thing that anyone wants to have happen. Most medical authorities are worried about things like developing vaccines, diagnosing infections, and slowing down the spread of infections, but here in the United States things are being done a little differently. The CDC has been following the progress of this flu, but the White House, upon becoming aware that epidemics might be a problem, has decided that the most important thing that can be done about bird flu is to send in the Army to set up quarantines.
It might not be a terrible idea to quarantine off places if there's a really nasty outbreak, but I question the feasibility of sending in the Feds to do it. I particularly question the feasibility of sending in the Feds post-Katrina, where about all the Feds were able to do was to obfuscate, make excuses, and twiddle their thumbs until the White House could get into position for photo ops. It's almost as if the Coward in Chief is now just making up excuses to gut the posse comitatis act.
Hurricane? SEND IN THE ARMY!
Flood? SEND IN THE ARMY!
Influenza? SEND IN THE ARMY!
Bin Laden determined to strike? Ooops, sorry, I'm on vacation.
(via Echidne of the Snakes)