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How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? Your deduction is neither demonstrable, nor is it o

How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? Your deduction is neither demonstrable, nor is it objective. You've really proven nothing

monocasa 8y ago
> How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? How is it not?
- writepub 8y ago
  We're drifting into debating opinions, which is typically a dead end. Suffice to say that the elimination of Osama - the killer of over 10,000 innocent Americans, and head of a terrorist organization with hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers, was high priority for America, across the political spectrum
  - mikeash 8y ago
    The opinions don’t even matter here. The fact is that the US subverted a vaccination program in order to kill people. Whether you think that was net good or bad is irrelevant.
nl 8y ago
In a similar vein, an isolated incident of targeted infiltration of a vaccination campaign doesn't endanger anyone - unless you lend credence terrorist narratives that it does To quote the link Scientific American article: The distrust sowed by the sham campaign in Pakistan could conceivably postpone polio eradication for 20 years, leading to 100,000 more cases that might otherwise not have occurred, says Leslie F. Roberts of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. “Forevermore, people would say this disease, this crippled child is because the U.S. was so crazy to get Osama bin Laden,” he argues. and As outlined in a letter signed by the deans of a dozen prominent schools of public health that was sent to the White House, President Barack Obama should direct all U.S. military and intelligence agencies to refrain from using a medical or humanitarian cover to achieve their objectives. So I think your point that there is no danger and it lends credence to terrorist narratives to say it does is difficult argument to make. It's public health officials in the US saying that when they criticized Obama.

How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? Your deduction is neither demonstrable, nor is it objective. You've really proven nothing

monocasa 8y ago

> How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? How is it not?

writepub 8y ago
We're drifting into debating opinions, which is typically a dead end. Suffice to say that the elimination of Osama - the killer of over 10,000 innocent Americans, and head of a terrorist organization with hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers, was high priority for America, across the political spectrum
- mikeash 8y ago
  The opinions don’t even matter here. The fact is that the US subverted a vaccination program in order to kill people. Whether you think that was net good or bad is irrelevant.

nl 8y ago

In a similar vein, an isolated incident of targeted infiltration of a vaccination campaign doesn't endanger anyone - unless you lend credence terrorist narratives that it does To quote the link Scientific American article: The distrust sowed by the sham campaign in Pakistan could conceivably postpone polio eradication for 20 years, leading to 100,000 more cases that might otherwise not have occurred, says Leslie F. Roberts of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. “Forevermore, people would say this disease, this crippled child is because the U.S. was so crazy to get Osama bin Laden,” he argues. and As outlined in a letter signed by the deans of a dozen prominent schools of public health that was sent to the White House, President Barack Obama should direct all U.S. military and intelligence agencies to refrain from using a medical or humanitarian cover to achieve their objectives. So I think your point that there is no danger and it lends credence to terrorist narratives to say it does is difficult argument to make. It's public health officials in the US saying that when they criticized Obama.