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by wozniacki 4519 days ago 

  What better path to victory then to alter 
  the mind of your enemy until he is incapable 
  of fighting you? Our educational assets ought
  to therefore be shared. To sensor them in the
  name of security is foolish.

  they could easily find cheaper and more 
  efficient ways than what they've been doing.
  Clearly, the goal is not to help.
The mind-jarring implication here is that somehow that the peoples of those nations are eager sucklings for our aid, material assistance of any kind and general goodwill.

That they would freely and openly welcome our help, without suspicion of malice or harm. [1]

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Pakistan halts polio vaccination campaign in response to Islamist violence against health workers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xkPDLw7E_Q

Pakistan polio vaccination under high threat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ouBgZmpnI

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1 comments
Elrac 4519 days ago
Your argument is without merit, because you're conflating concepts that don't belong together. You are telling us that some of Pakistan's leaders, including of course religious leaders, are resisting American aid in the form of polio vaccination. The rest of this discussion, though, is about offering education to individuals, not to the often dunderheaded leaders who try to control them. These are two different target groups, and ironically empowering individuals will actually help de-legitimize the leaders we have a problem with.

Since you chose the example of polio vaccinations, I think it would be fair to mention that Pakistani leaders have an excellent reason to oppose polio vaccinations. It turns out, and you can easily Google for this, that the CIA set up a fake vaccination program in Pakistan to get a hold of Bin Laden's DNA.

It's bad enough that there are false allegations, mostly religion-based, against Western medical intervention in these countries. But to actively feed this distrust by abusing what little trust these people had, just to accomplish a public symbolic victory over a terrorist organization, was an utterly despicable act on part of the US administration.

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