Admittedly, the American Red Cross has problems distributing humanitarian aid effectively, but the ICRC creates a separate set of problems for itself by departi

Admittedly, the American Red Cross has problems distributing humanitarian aid effectively, but the ICRC creates a separate set of problems for itself by departing from its founding mission as an impartial and neutral distributor of humanitarian aid. They risk losing their access to monitoring prisoners of war by advocating for certain interpretations of international law, something that's certainly important, but better left to organizations that don't need the same kind of cooperation from otherwise hostile regimes that the ICRC does.