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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
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.
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if they carried on using the tactic now, after knowing how irrational the response was I'd agree with you, but they are not responsible for the irrational response in the first place.