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To: 68skylark

Doctors without borders feel their mission trumps whatever the US military does, so there are bound to be problems. I suspect they either treated Taliban members or knew where they were and when the US army wanted them to rat out the Taliban, they refused. So the next time they wanted a pass to go someplace dicey or wanted US army help in getting medicines, they were told no. Tit for tat.


2 posted on 07/28/2004 4:43:01 PM PDT by hershey
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To: hershey

I'm thinking about that recent Redford film, where he's a retiring CIA agent. There's a clinic in Lebanon or some ME country, where the nurses/doctors get along to get along. That's the sort of thing doctors without borders would run into every day of the week. A moral dilemma.


3 posted on 07/28/2004 4:46:30 PM PDT by hershey
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the whole point is that they are not political at all. they are just doctors and they heal people. if they started 'ratting out' the taliban to us forces, they would no longer be able to achieve their mission worldwide.

i have a hell of a lot of respect for msf and i give them money. they risk thier lives and give up their time, not because they are threatened, not because they have interests in any region, but because they want to help people. while we are on the internet and well fed, they are in remote african villages, healing children. they are better people than i or you.


5 posted on 07/28/2004 5:33:29 PM PDT by sweneop
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