Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced that it is rejecting a Pentagon offer to pay for the reconstruction of the Kunduz, Afghanistan hospital that a US warplane bombed last month, an attack which killed at least 30 civilians.
MSF says that it is a matter of policy for the nonprofit not to accept government money for its operations in Afghanistan, and that it intends to continue that policy. Tensions between the Pentagon and MSF since the attack, however, were likely also a factor.
In a statement, MSF General Director Christopher Stokes reiterated that all the information seen so far makes it “hard to understand” how the Pentagon continues to maintain that the attack was some sort of “mistake.” MSF maintains the attack was deliberate, and subsequently a war crime.
The Pentagon said shortly after the attack that they intended to pay for the repairs and to make “condolence payments” to the families of slain civilians. The Pentagon also promised to pay for additional repairs after smashing the hospital with an armored vehicle.
This matter is headed down the memory hole and will soon be forgotten-along with countless other US atrocities.
I was about to post a comment saying precisely this.
Unless the US withdraws from Afghanistan entirely, there will be more incidents such as this. In order to sustain the morale of the locals, immediate direct decisive aerial support must be provided whenever they come under threat, and especially when they must counter-attack to eliminate a gain by the Taliban or ISIS. Since humanitarian organisations are completely unwilling to accept the logic of a military situation, the US must only intervene when its interests make this absolutely unavoidable. The ideal case of a humanitarian intervention was Rwanda, where the US let the locals slaughter each other without lifting a finger.
Ongoing since 1776 and counting.
Unwelcome guest you could be correct but i hope not, you are saying US is desperate, because of deterioting military situation, Taliban will shadow NGOs at night and US will blow NGOs to smithereens. This is bad stratagy , it will drive away whatever little support we still have.