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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Because no one in their right mind would expect a rational human beings reaction to the CIA's plan to be 'let's kill hundreds of Pakistani health care workers and cause the deaths of thousands of Pakistani kids, that'll teach the americans!'
And it wasn't a bunch of spies, it was one doctor. They were only really trying to get info from one house.
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It wasn't just the Taliban that banned vaccinations. It was regular citizens in small villages all around Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and elsewhere. And it wasn't about sticking it to the Americans. It was and continues to be simple distrust. That's why the CIA no longer engages this tactic. The estimates are that this caused polio eradication to be set back 20 years and possibly 100k cases worldwide and is certainly responsible for the spike in cases in Pakistan in 2012. That is entirely on the cia. Saying an uneducated populous should get a clue and not worry about having their chains yanked is ignorant on your part.