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This article presents an editorial on the withdrawal of Médcins sans Frontières (MSF; Doctors Without Borders) from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many staff of the MSF have been targets of attacks by terrorists, and the United States and its allies have tried to coopt the organization as an extension of the military intervention. This has put the MSF in a political position, instead of being allowed into countries merely to care for their citizens and bearing witness to atrocities.