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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (142013)	7/30/2004 12:55:55 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 281500

I saw a movie the other night called "Beyond Borders" starring Angelina Jolie and that cat with the great accent and eyes that women swoon over who played King Arthur. Obviously, the movie was intended to be sympathetic to "Doctors Without Borders," but I couldn't help thinking as I watched: What an exercise in total futility this is! The King Arthur character spent ten years in at least three separate countries, including Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Chechnya. In Ethiopia he saved "many" people so they could live in an environment that obviously couldn't support but a few without massive injections of foreign aid, which then creates a new population pulse which then starves without massive injections of aid. In Cambodia he concealed weapons in crates of food because that was the only way he would be allowed to move his caravans and save "many" people. A baby accidentally pulled the pin on one of the grenades and killed himself and several others. In Chechnya, Angelina Jolie caught up with him a third time and managed to step on a land mine, thereby depriving her two children (one of which was fathered by the King Arthur character) of a mother. The movie ended with King Arthur approaching Angelina Jolie's home, where supposedly he would make amends. Dramatic license aside, I believe the movie portrayed the situation accurately. My wife said: "It's just a love story!" But I was steaming. I couldn't help telling myself: "That husband who stayed home and took care of Angelina's two children did more to save life and improve the world than Angelina Jolie's UN activities and King Arthur's heroics. He's the real hero in this story." Sorry, I know this seems heartless, but that's the way I see it. People who meddle in the affairs of others without real power to enforce a better way are just making things worse. Why can't they just stay home? Message #142014 from Nadine Carroll at Jul 29, 2004 10:53 PM Doctors Without Borders Withdraws From Afghanistan One of their complaints was that US soldiers were doing humanitarian work. No kidding. They think only NGOs should be allowed to do humanitarian work.