[TigerLikesRooster]

A little business venture went wrong, and made an international headline. Now they have become priority target of Allied Forces in Afghan. What a catastrophic business move.

[gandalftb]

The group had stopped for lunch at a restaurant in the village when they were attacked by about 10 local bandits.

There is a fatalistic hubris shared by a lot of "missionaries" that they are somehow immune from the primitive dramas they inject themselves into. That somehow their good intentions will protect them.

I see this folly as no different than going to a zoo and crawling into the lion cage, hoping they've been fed recently.

I realize my report is at complete odds with the media story. There seems a strong drive to legitimize what they were doing. I think it is more important to report the facts and let everyone realize how grim life and death is in Afghanistan.

Few of the locals will give a whit that these doctors can no longer treat their own countrymen. It is strictly a them or us attitude with Afghans.