WaPo again runs an editorial lamenting the rise of polio in Pakistan and the mistrust among the population of aid workers without noting the role the CIA had in creating that mistrust by creating a fake vaccine program to track bin Laden washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa… 
In lieu of the most glaring and logical explanation as to why people in Pakistan dont trust aid workers (that aid workers were used as a ruse to give bogus vaccines by the CIA) WaPo continues to traffic in orientalist cliches about "thugs" and "ignorance" fair.org/home/action-al…
elements blamed by WaPo for polio resurgence in Pakistan
"political instability"
"population mobility"
"violence driven by intolerance"
"hardline Islamist forces"
"social media"
"ignorance"
Never mentioned:
CIA scheme that gave ppl incomplete vaccines theguardian.com/world/2011/jul…
"political instability"
"population mobility"
"violence driven by intolerance"
"hardline Islamist forces"
"social media"
"ignorance"
Never mentioned:
CIA scheme that gave ppl incomplete vaccines theguardian.com/world/2011/jul…
Washington Post suspiciously starts the clock when the news was revealed, writing " Since 2012, at least 98 people have been killed in attacks on Pakistan’s polio vaccination campaigns" and yet... draws zero connection. Curious what happened in July 2011?
NYT 4/2019: "The fact that the C.I.A. used a vaccination team to track down Osama bin Laden in 2011 has helped fuel the resistance to vaccination campaigns in the country. Militants have frequently attacked health workers, accusing them of being spies" nytimes.com/2019/04/29/wor…
At the very least it deserves... a token mention, no?
