See the story of Ayad al-Sirowiy, an Iraqi boy, who has been in the US for a while now receving treatment for injuries to his face, received as a result of his cow accidentally setting off an American cluster bomb, which drilled tiny pieces of shrapnel into his face, blinding him in one eye and printing a map of pin-prick scars across his skin.
Of course, on seeing Walmart (quote : "it's bigger than my village !"), and drinking a lot of Pepsi, he doesn't seem to want to go back home...and the contact lens given to him by the doctors has already been lost...and since his living conditions will be much worse that his brief stint here in the US, I was wondering about the collective wisdom of providing him with contact lens...how is he to take care of it ? Where will he obtain the lens solution, or replacements ? Well, sometimes people (even educated people like doctors, senators, etc.) do not think practically, or consider that the situation in other parts of the world, need not necessarily mirror their own...
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