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Afghanistan

Dershowitz: Doctors Without Borders Really Is 'Doctors Without Morals'

2015-11-12

[Daily Caller] International law experts are blasting Doctors Without Borders for forcibly removing civilian patients from the aid group's Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital and replacing them with wounded Taliban fighters when the city fell to the rebel control in late September.

Alan Dershowitz, an acclaimed Harvard constitutional lawyer and authority in international law, said that he was not surprised that the group, known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, favored Taliban fighters over civilian patients, telling The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview that he regards Doctors Without Borders as "Doctors Without Morals."

Dershowitz charged the group with having a long history of anti-Western political stances and of not being neutral. He says MSF "is a heavily ideological organization that often favors radical groups over Western democracies and is highly politicized."

Posted by:Besoeker

#12 ...or you lay down with illegal combatants and get up with embedded shrapnel.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-12 22:51

#11 MSF was basically serving as auxiliary Taliban forces. They got spanked - and now they whine. Hey - if you lay down with dogs, you get fleas.

Posted by: Lone Ranger 2015-11-12 21:20

#10 If the enemy obeyed the rules of war their medics would not be legitimate targets. However they don't, and you are maybe right.

Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2015-11-12 17:24

#9 At that point John, they are enemy medics and are legitimate targets if they are supporting terrorists.

Posted by: DarthVader 2015-11-12 17:09

#8 the group, known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, favored Taliban fighters over civilian patients

With doctors like this, who needs enemies? What happened to the age old medical tenet: "Do no harm."

Posted by: JohnQC 2015-11-12 16:39

#7 offered advanced medical care to people that have never seen anything more advanced than a band-aid and a shaman

But not advanced agriculture = famine

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-12 12:50

#6 Doctors Without Morals -- from a lawyer yet --that's gotta hurt their sanctimonious and brittle egos.

Posted by: regular joe 2015-11-12 12:47

#5 That's fine. Just don't act all surprised when they get bombed.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-11-12 11:36

#4 Depends on the region. I've know a couple doctors that have done a year or two with this group in Africa. The work they did there was solid and humanitarian and offered advanced medical care to people that have never seen anything more advanced than a band-aid and a shaman.

That said, I have seen reports of this same organization working with drug lords and warlords to operate in heavy war areas. Granted sometimes that is the only way they can work there, but often times they make a deal with the devil and are constantly harassed and threatened. Put doctors from say, Pakistan that are friendly to our enemy and you have what we got here. Basically a medical and trauma center for the enemy fighters.

Posted by: DarthVader 2015-11-12 11:25

#3 1) Dershowitz is one of the few libs I like.

2) Too bad he didn't say things like this while he was still at Harvard.

Posted by: Raj 2015-11-12 11:24

#2 Apparently this looks like a Lefty example of Cannibalism. When they have a moment Lefties will have a Purge on other Lefties.
Its just the Nature of the Lefty. Stalin and Trotsky are a TYPE of the same animal. And Zinoviev and about another thirty were staring at Sheep.

Posted by: Betty Gurly-Brown9024 2015-11-12 07:54

#1 And when a big lefty like Dershowitz calls BS on "Doctors without Borders" you know something is rotten in Denmark.

Actually we should have bombed the place TWICE

Posted by: Sock Puppet 2015-11-12 04:48

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