The Airmen and the Headhunters ~ Watch the Full Episode | Secrets of the Dead | PBS

Watching this…

The former medic describes his orders to go from village to village, learning what he can and treating everyone he possibly could.

The narrator tells us that this was so that the Dayak tribespeople, the culture they had literally just dropped into, knew they were there to help.

It occurs to me that this is what is wrong with not only the way the US fights wars but how nearly every single NGO functions abroad.

When we drop into another culture, why aren’t we learning what we can and showing that we are there to help? Seems people might like us more. Plus, there is the whole opportunity to actually learn what the heck is going on before we bumble around like bulls in an explosive filled china shop thing.