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" It is possible for the vast United States intelligence apparatus to go 15 minutes without fking up in the most egregious way possible? I keep hearing about how lazy and incompetent public employees are, but I&amp;#039;ll take the most nepotism-ridden road crew in Middlesex County over these clowns. Usman, who limps on a leg bowed by the polio he caught as a child, made sure that his first three children were protected from the disease, but he turned away vaccinators when his youngest was born. He was furious that the Central Intelligence Agency, in its hunt for Osama bin Laden, had staged a fake vaccination campaign, and infuriated by American drone strikes, one of which, he said, had struck the son of a man he knew, blowing off his head. He had come to see the war on polio, the longest, most expensive disease eradication effort in history, as a Western plot. Polio. Freaking polio which, even in Pakistan, had been eradicated so completely that this poor man&amp;#039;s child is the first child in the world crippled by it thus year. &amp;quot;I know now I made a mistake,&amp;quot; said Usman, 32, who, like many in his Pashtun tribe, uses only one name. &amp;quot;But you Americans have caused pain in my community. Americans pay for the polio campaign, and that&amp;#039;s good. But you abused a humanitarian mission for a military purpose.&amp;quot; Anger like his over American foreign policy has led to a disastrous setback for the global effort against polio. In December, nine vaccinators were shot dead here, and two Taliban commanders banned vaccination in their areas, saying the vaccinations could resume only if drone strikes ended. In January, 10 vaccinators were killed in Nigeria&amp;#039;s Muslim-dominated north. I used to have this argument with people who saw nothing wrong with the CIA&amp;#039;s using people in my business as spies. Sooner or later, I used to say, if you use a few journalists as spies, then we&amp;#039;re all spies in the eyes of the people on whom those few are spying. Then we end up dead. Now, some bright Zero Dark Thirty type concocts a phony vaccination campaign, and now people doing god&amp;#039;s work in some of the worst places in the world get clipped, and a disease we all thought was eliminated is back again, and we get blamed for it. Shaheen&amp;#039;s sewers are concrete trenches about a foot deep, into which wastewater, rendered milky white by dish soap, flows from pipes exiting mud-brick houses. A child reaching into one for a stick to play with showed how easily the virus, carried in fecal matter, could spread. Though the area has clean water from a well, the steel pipe it flows through at times dips inside the sewerage trench. It has dents where trucks have banged it, and it is pierced by connectors, some attached just to rubber hoses. &amp;quot;Piped water with sewage mixed in is worse than no piped water,&amp;quot; said Dr. Bhutta of Aga Khan. &amp;quot;Sometimes rural populations have it better. They carry water from the river, and they defecate in open fields, so there&amp;#039;s no mixing.&amp;quot; Pakistani children suffer diarrhea so often that half the country&amp;#039;s young are stunted by it. Polio immunity is low, even in vaccinated children, because other viruses crowd the gut receptors to which the vaccine should attach. At the clinic in Shaheen, the doctor running the polio drive, an ophthalmologist, complained that he got too little police help...In the middle of last year, it became known that in 2011, the C.I.A. had paid a local doctor to try to get DNA samples from children inside an Abbottabad compound to prove they were related to Bin Laden. Even though the doctor, Shakil Afridi, who is now serving a 33-year sentence for treason, was offering a hepatitis vaccine, anger turned against polio drops.Leaders of the polio eradication effort could not have been more frustrated. They were already fighting new rumors that vaccinators were helping set drone targets because they have practices like marking homes with chalk so that follow-up teams can find them. Now, after years of reassuring nervous families that the teams were not part of a C.I.A. plot, here was proof that one was.  Hearts and minds, people. Hearts and minds. Fire somebody. Fire lots of somebodies. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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