Afghanistan I: MAS*H without Laughter

In February, at the invitation of Columbia University’s Center for Human Rights, three French doctors visited the United States to talk about their work in Afghanistan.

Their report, in the simplest terms: The war continues, in some ways is getting worse, cruder, more vicious. It is now a war against civilians. Using the best anti-guerilla tactic, Soviet-Afghan army forces are, it appears, trying to dry up the water in which the fish—the resistance, the Mujahedin—swim. There are more mines, more refugees; there is more hunger, more disease. There is more pain, more sorrow.

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In February, at the invitation of Columbia University’s Center for Human Rights, three French doctors visited the United States to talk about their work in Afghanistan.

Their report, in the simplest terms: The war continues, in some ways is getting worse, cruder, more vicious. It is now a war against civilians. Using the best anti-guerilla tactic, Soviet-Afghan army forces are, it appears, trying to dry up the water in which the fish—the resistance, the Mujahedin—swim. There are more mines, more refugees; there is more hunger, more disease. There is more pain, more sorrow.