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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I just read on the BBC site that Médecins Sans Frontières is pulling out of Afghanistan because of poor security.
Wonderful. What a success story that has been.
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I've always sort of liked these people, and I certainly wish them no harm. Still, these tidbits were interesting, to say the least.
"MSF, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, has been working in Afghanistan for 24 years — through a decade of Soviet occupation, a brutal civil war and the rise and fall of the repressive Taliban. A French staffer was killed in 1990, but they have never withdrawn until now. "
So the premise isn't just that they help others. The premise is that they help others when its safe?
and then there is this from the same Chicago Tribune article
>>The aid group also called on the U.S. military to halt its expanding use of humanitarian work to win over skeptical Afghans.
U.S. and NATO (news - web sites) troops are running a string of so-called Provincial Reconstruction Teams across the country, setting up clinics, digging wells and doing other work normally carried out by civilians.
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Blurring the distinction "puts all aid workers in danger," MSF secretary-general Marine Buissonniere said. <<
Mmmm, hmmm.
