August 29, 2009
Believe Me, It’s Torture
Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair:
Here is the most chilling way I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, “waterboarding” was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as sere (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe who disregarded the Geneva Conventions. But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict.
More here.
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Comments
Too late Mr. Hitchens your vigorous and relentless bigoted support of the Bush era--your manufacturing of lies and your friendship with its star thugs--cannot be changed. In the choices you have made in your writings you were part of the infrastructure of the mindset which made this happen. There is a regime change in Washington we understand and understandably you will need invites where you can continue to provide your accented advice--blowhard as a British intellectual--but sorry game over for you. Or so I hope.
Posted by: maniza | Aug 29, 2009 10:20:36 AM
I hope not. Despite his positions on the war in Iraq, there are few public intellectuals I enjoy reading and hearing more than Christopher Hitchens.
Posted by: Bryon Giddens-White | Aug 29, 2009 11:23:14 AM
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