As I noted yesterday, the CIA used a hepatitis vaccination campaign as a ploy to obtain DNA from members of Osama bin Laden's family in order to confirm his presence at the Abbottabad compound.
It only took a day for public health officials to jump into the fray and criticize the Agency for undermining anti-polio campaigns in the Muslim world, where apparently there is a rampant conspiracy theory that such programs are really fronts for a CIA sterilization campaign.
I guess the World Health Organization has a point, at least from their narrow vantage point. But if you are really thinking of what is best for the children of Pakistan in the long-term, I'd say defeating the sort of extremism that propagates such medieval conspiratorial thinking in the first place should rank up there as well.
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