Doctors Without Borders Hospital Casualty Of U.S.-Taliban Fight In a tragic turn of events, a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was struck during a firefight between U.S. forces in the form of airstrikes and the remnants of the Taliban who overran the city earlier in the week, but were being driven out. At this writing, there is a tremendous amount of confusion surrounding the events in the night, but the consensus is that the medical facility was hit by gunfire or bombs from large aircraft operating in the area. The emergency room, and surgical suite were hit, at least 16 people are unaccounted for or dead including a number of physicians, and parts of the building have been destroyed. Pentagon spokespeople are investigating as an AC-130 gunship an attack plane with a C-130 frame was believed to be operating in the area. The part of this story that will be missed or glossed over is that U.S. forces were in pursuit of Taliban who very likely hid in the hospital. Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross regularly communicate their facilities coordinates to American military forces. As a rule, headlines of these facilities being destroyed in battle do not happen. At least not all that often. What is bothersome is the report that Doctors Without Borders notified U.S. officials a half an hour before the firefight stopped that they were under attack. (And the chain of command did nothing?) As do so many Americans on more levels than how could we POSSIBLY bomb a hospital staffed with people who are the best humanity has to offer. We would like to know what is going on in the American military that chains of command fail on this level. One report did say that all the known terrorists were killed in the attack, but so were a whole lot of innocent people. Generally, dont we Americans try to avoid that? No matter what the investigation yields at the Pentagon accident, following the enemy into the building, or somebody wasnt paying attention communication in the chains of command needs some examination. 