For John, BLUF: Sometimes you can't help people because other people just won't allow it. Nothing to see here; just move along.
In the morning I check the Althouse blog and this AM she had a post on Doctors Without Borders and Somalia. She is referencing an article in the The Christian Science Monitor. The story is that Doctors Without Borders is pulling out of Somalia, due to the violence in that territory. The lede from The Christian Science Monitor:
The international aid agency Doctors Without Borders is to permanently close its operations in Somalia because of repeated “extreme attacks” that it says the country’s authorities are doing little to curb.Professor Althouse quotes the following from the article:
We have reached the point where I just don’t see the recognition of the value of impartial humanitarian assistance in Somalia anymore... We’re not therefore able to put our staff in places where they can work. The risks and the compromises that we must make are too high.... I want to reiterate that the kidnapping was simply the latest in a series of incidents since we have been present in Somalia, but yes, it was the last straw."This is not a good development. It suggests that civilization, as we understand it here in the West, is slipping away in parts of the world. Should those parts of the world be allowed to go their own way?
Regards — Cliff
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