The Ebola outbreak that erupted in the eastern Congo should be a wake-up call for the State Department. Partisans might lay blame on the Trump administration’s dissolution of the U.S. Agency for International Development, but this navel-gazing is arrogant. Not everything revolves around the United States. Ebola outbreaks occur periodically, and USAID has always been poorly equipped to handle them. In 2014, it was the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and not USAID that built field hospitals and took charge of the counter-Ebola fight in Liberia.Regional officials say the reason the eastern Congo outbreak is so severe is that Congolese officials neither recognized it nor sought to counter it initially. Corruption and lack of capacity carry a high cost.This is a bad look for a country on which President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have gambled so much. The Congo has an estimated $24 trillion in rare earths and other commodities — if it could get its act together, it could be to the 21st-century economy what Saudi Arabia and its vast oil reserves were to the 20th-century economy. With Trump prioritizing deals over democracy, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi hints at constitutional revisions to allow himself a third term. Tshisekedi wants to remain in office to be the deal-maker, especially as Trump is less likely to ask questions about where the money goes than his predecessors.