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Foreign Affairs

Jake Stern

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3. ". . . . . campaign workers are Western spies"

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:41 PM

Apr 2019

Sadly, they have a point there. The Obama administration got Bin Ladin but screwed the pooch for vaccination programs, especially in the Mid East and Central/South Asia.

There were any number of covers they could have used but they went with a fake vaccination drive and it ended up sowing a huge amount of mistrust and suspicion which still lingers and manifests itself today.

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Gunmen kill woman polio vaccinator in Pakistan: official [View all] Eugene Apr 2019 OP

news from the distant past lapfog_1 Apr 2019 #1

FFS!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2019 #2

". . . . . campaign workers are Western spies" Jake Stern Apr 2019 #3

Anti-vaxxers who do it directly rather than let their unvaxxed children kill others. keithbvadu2 Apr 2019 #4