STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Obama Should Never Apologize to “The Doctors Without Borders” 

On Any Condition Whatsoever!
We are a sovereign nation, they are merely a collection of self-anointed medical practitioners who have no legitimacy except for their own self-righteous attitudes. For quite some time, I have heard and seen this French inspired organization, “Doctors Without Borders”, intrude into a myriad of world conflicts acting as noble healers. I am not a fan of theirs for many practical reasons.

Most importantly, I do not know what their real agenda is concerning a variety of different conflicts around the world. I do not know their vetting process and even if I did I, would not grant them legitimacy of any sort. The group is composed of like-minded physicians, nurses and health workers who see themselves as ‘healers’ of the ‘sick and dying’ in every conflict that creates death and dying. As physician and international crisis manager, I find that they have become more of a hindrance to a successful resolution of a problem than their designated self-worth.

Any organization that is initiated by the French or sustained by that government becomes suspicious because like the USA, Israel and many other countries, ‘self-sacrificing doctors’ are often used rightfully or wrongfully as ‘intelligence operatives’ and/or sympathizers for a cause. I do not condone any military action against a clearly designated hospital wherever it is; and please note my scathing blogs about Gen Campbell and our DOD ineptitude in Afghanistan. Yet having criticized my own country does not allow for or condone a self-anointed representative of a Non-Governmental Organization [NGO] to demand an apology from our POTUS or any other senior military /civilian official.

Do we Americans belong in Afghanistan?
The answer is a resounding No!
That was a political/military faux pas committed by previous White House Officials, Presidents and Generals.

Do we owe any foreign civilian groups, be they American Missionaries, Physicians, or Mercenaries any apology whatsoever?

Again, I would state that we do not owe DWB any apology. Rather, I would ask them what right do they have to enter any combat zone that has been festering for fifteen years or more and then make themselves the moral arbiter of what is right or wrong. Just because they are willing to consciously sacrifice their lives in the pursuit of a ‘so-called noble cause’ as in treating the wounded; does not make them the ultimate moral authority in that situation.

Even less impressive to me is the ineffectual, laggard United Nations that has the audacity to declare anything either a ‘war crime’ or ‘ UNESCO Heritage Tragedy’ example: the ISIS destruction of Palymyra. In reality, the UN is nothing more than a eunuch organization replete with political corruption and intelligence operatives who have nothing to do but spy on each other.

Yes, I am ashamed that POTUS Obama decided to ‘apologize’ to somebody called Dr Joanne Liu, ‘the international president of Doctors Without Borders’. Whoever she is in real life and whatever her true motivations might be is clearly not my business. However, I might speculate that she may be a Chinese spy or a collector of critical information for some intelligence organization that I am not privy to at this moment. In the real world of medicine, everyone in a combat zone, no matter what they may say or do, is suspect as to why they allow themselves the “luxury of treating combatants”, irrespective of which side those combatants might be on.

During the recent Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone and Liberia, I found out that Doctors Without Borders had not performed very impressively. Therefore, we Americans had to send 3000 brave men and women into harm’s way to set up the infrastructure for the subsequent termination of the epidemic.

Lest you think me somewhat harsh or paranoid with respect to doctors who find that they have a ‘God Complex’ and want to rush into a variety of battles, please consider the following physicians who used their medical skills to ‘help people’ in the same way that Doctors Without Borders claim they do:

▪ Dr. Bashar Assad-Board Certified British Ophthalmologist—decimates his people with chlorine gas and barrel bombs.

▪ Dr. Radovan Karadzic- attended Columbia Medical School in NYC; psychiatrist and leader of the Bosnian Slaughter of Muslims. 

▪ Dr. Mahatir Mohamed- Prime Minister of Malaysia for 22 years. Physician; involved in major political/ fiduciary corruption and unsolved murders.

Believe me when I tell you that I can add names upon names of doctors around the world who, in the name of Hippocrates and do no harm, have committed more moral travesties than one could ever imagine. From my international operational perspective, Doctors Without Borders represents a potential nest of informers, intelligence operatives, and other miscreant activities that complicate a combatant scene where countries and not NGOs are at war.

I am tired, if not disgusted with Obama having to apologize to the outside world when in reality his apology and possible resignation should be made to only one legitimate entity—THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! He should explain to us once and for all why he finds himself and his WH team in a cauldron of endless mistakes and errors which has never really been dissected by his inept staff. As an American and a veteran, I await an explanation of any sort to clarify why we are still fighting and killing innocent civilians in Africa [AfriCom]; Middle East [Cent Com] ; and all points of south.

No POTUS should ever have to be encapsulated in a web of apologies when in fact those words of remorse should be pronounced only to the American citizen/taxpayer who are his boss and the boss of every other official in the Federal Govt.

Senator Claiborne Pell [D-RI] explained the following about our POTUS:
“People leave Washington DC do so by way of the ballot box or coffin.”