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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZTK493jJJQ

How do you feel about humanitarian groups in live combat environments? And the fact that no one has statistical evidence of if they are effective or not? Are they a hindrance? He also discusses an experiment started by the US Air Force that involved giving money to Kandahar refugees to see if they in turn give money to the Taliban or not.
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Humanitarian groups like Doctors Without Borders and missionaries only exist to make their members feel good and to give them something to brag about if they make it back home.

Its a good conversation starter. But that's its only value.

They cannot provide consistence medical care. Everything they do is patchwork. Their patients suffer and likely die of reopened wounds down the line. There are no post-operation observation periods. Just hackneyed work that makes medical students and the religious pat themselves on the back.

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>>29789476
Well thats just plainly false

Doctors without borders were one of the only groups who went in and helped the Africans from the ebola outbreak and AIDS epidemic when it first broke out.

They are all over the world sacrificing time and money to help third world shitholes get some semblance of proper medical care.
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They should be banned, along with journalists and other busybodies.
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>>29789495
And help them breed when they should die, wasting billions of money in the result.
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>>29789454
In Bosnia the UN fucked us more than anyone else. We would have preferred if they stayed out and just funded with arms
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>>29789504
>We shouldn't be able to get photos, images, or videos of war or conflict

Guess who all those nice images and footage from Viet Nam and Afghanistan came from? And Ukraine.... and Iraq.... and Kuwait.... and the bush war.

If you banned journalists we would never have 90% of the images and video you see here on /k/.
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>>29789510
They aren't wasting anyone's money but their own.

And with that logic why do we have doctors at all? Shouldn't we let everyone who is sick die?
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>>29789515
Not a bad price if we win the goddamn war.

Journalists were running with biases images ever since Vietnam.
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>>29789504
They shouldn't be banned but they shouldn't have the status they do now on a given combat field.

If they end up getting killed by either forces currently fighting, there shouldn't be any consequences for any of the opposing forces. Your fault for standing in the way.

Pic related. Busy body missionary who was turned into an ISIS sex slave before ending up dead.

If you want to "find yourself" go to Europe and bore your social circle with your stories from there instead. Idiot.
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>>29789522
Doctors should stay in their own borders.

>Private donors provide about 90% of the organization's funding, while corporate donations provide the rest, giving MSF an annual budget of approximately US$750 million.[3]
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>>29789515
With the current amount of GoPro cameras and phone cameras, journalists are no longer a necessity for those denied their own wars.
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>>29789523
If we only had militaries recording and getting stories out of warzones we would never have gotten all the gruesome and exciting shit we see in afghanistan or vietnam.

The "biases" are good. It allows you to see all sides of history and find the truth somewhere in between.
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>>29789534
>Pic related. Busy body missionary who was turned into an ISIS sex slave before ending up dead.
Good riddance.

Millions of homeless and poorly-fed vets inside her own country needs her help, no, let's go feed muslims instead.
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>>29789535
That just proves that they are wasting their own money.

for example
if I donated to a christian missionary group in african I am not going to be upset when they do christian missionary work in africa.

the people who voluntarily give money to DWB are the ones who support their objectives/cause.

tax money is not used and its a private group.
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>>29789543
Except then you would only get one side of the story.

Imagine if we had saddam's troops being the ones who documented their own battles and conflicts.

You probably would never see any of the evil fucked up shit he did.

You cannot rely on one party to report without bias.
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>>29789544
>Major General John M. Wright quietly abandoned the hill on June 5. The debate over Hamburger Hill reached the United States Congress, with particularly severe criticism of military leadership by Senators Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, and Stephen M. Young. In its June 27 issue, Life Magazine published the photographs of 241 Americans killed in one week in Vietnam; this is now considered a watershed event of negative public opinion toward the Vietnam War. While only five of the 241 featured photos were of those killed in the battle, many Americans had the perception that all of the photos featured in the magazine were casualties of the battle.
This is the kind of biases shit they did.

No, the journalists who did this shouldn't just be banned, they should be lined up for dishonest press as well as being traitors to the cause.
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>>29789565
There will always be GoPro from our sides as well.

The press will always be anti-american anyway, not anti-war, but anti-american.
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>>29789454

>And the fact that no one has statistical evidence of if they are effective or not?

What is "effective"? How much are you expecting them to save? This guy knows a lot about USAF studies but this does not the whole topic of "humanitarian support in crisis areas". ONLY what happened in Afghanistan, ONLY when there were two sides - western USA and islamic Taleban. NOTHING ELSE.

>>29789510

Actually the population explosion in Africa is starting to slowly get controlled.

Yes, there are lots of poor people.

No, they do not multiply completely out of control these days - this is because people gave a shit back in the 80s.
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>>29789557
They are not wasting money in their own perspective, since their goal is to sustain third world shitholes's growing population, without ways to curtain it.

It's the fact these africans and muslims are gonna be exported to the 1st world that are going to cost me money.
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>>29789454 (OP)
>He also discusses an experiment started by the US Air Force that involved giving money to Kandahar refugees to see if they in turn give money to the Taliban or not.
>the USAF gave money to refugees who then joined up with the Taliban
>the USAF is giving money to the Taliban

Is the Air Force the most incompetent US military branch?
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>>29789589
>Actually the population explosion in Africa is starting to slowly get controlled.
Africa still remains the fastest growing population in the world, surpassing China now.

How much is the controlled number?
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>>29789476
> Be war torn refugee
> Literally war torn
> Mortal injuries
> All around you warlords are fighting
> Nothing for you, because fuck civilians
> Would give anything for a doctor
> Even the most incompetent, last-in-his-class hack
> Any doctor at all, just to give you a chance.

No, anon, you have to die there in the dirt, because the only doctor in a thousand mile radius who's willing to help you out can't promise consistent care or post-op observation in a war zone. You'll probably just re-open the wound in a few weeks anyway. So fuck you. No doctor for you.
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>>29789625
now you're getting it. If God didn't want their life to suck, He wouldn't have had them be born in some shithole
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>>29789454
of course humanitarian groups are ineffective.
>go into a country with a budget to spend helping people
>set up two different posts
>one in a poor area
>the other in the rich area
>the rich area gets help, and is not countered by Taliban, the aid workers can do their jobs freely, and help the people (who are not the most disadvantaged people in the region anyway)
>in the poor area, they're harassed by Taliban, workers don't want to go there anymore, people in that area don't get help
>eventually pull out of the poor area
>the rich area is getting richer, their standard of living rises, while the poor area gets poorer, their standard of living lowers
>the poor area need stuff, and sell their services to Taliban for it
>Taliban moves into the rich area, controls the supplies with minimal violence at the start, to get those supplies into the poor areas to gain popular support
>corruption eventually destroys the rich area, turns it into a poor one, Taliban again regain control of that area, and can continue this tactic on the next area

Instead, if the military were doing the humanitarian effort, they could actually suppress Taliban and prove to the local populace the occupational force were there for their own good, instead of only showing up when there's time to slot some floppies.
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>>29789625
>Be war torn refugee
Remember there's 30 million African refugees in Syria.
T. merkel

Naïve, foolish, traitorous anon.
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