1. Aid workers should be free to go where they want. These are very brave people who volunteer to do aid work. If they didn't do it, people would die. To know you are literally saving lives everyday probably makes the dangers seem worth it.
2. Without knowing the circumstances it is impossible for any of us to say it was or it wasn't wise.
3. There is an outcry because we have supposedly gone there to help the Afghan people. If we instead kill or maim them, then our motivations are called into question.
I agree with Gromit that Aid workers should be free to go where they want to but with certain provisos .
A. They shouldn't put other peoples lives at danger whilst carrying out their work..
B. They shouldn't expect to be rescued as a right.
In the past many lives have been lost because of 1.and 2.
The same thing applies to people who put themselves in danger after being warned not to carry out certain missions. People like that yacht couple who are now in the hands of Somali pirates.
Civillian aid workers like her are far braver that all the soldiers you so admireAOG
These are people who go into very dangerous areas without weapons or defence
You don't hear aid workers moan about having to use lightly protected landrovers instead of huge armoured personnel carriers.
And they do it not because they've joined up with the hope of glory and adventure but rather to actually help some of the poorest people in the world who are trapped in the middle of a war not of their making.
Shame on you. You should be saluting her bravery not questioning her wisdom
Starting to look like she was actually killed by the US rescue team who lobbed in a grenade - why the hell you would ever allow the yanks to mount a rescue is beyond me.