Waterboarding
So this waterboarding thing has been all over the news lately, and I don't get it. I mean, I get what it is.
What I can't understand is how these people go around bragging about their intelligence and how the military does all these studies all the time, yet all they can come up with is waterboarding? It can kill a person! It can cause brain or lung damage!
What good is torturing a person to get information if they're too fucked up to give it to you? There are so many more humane ways you could torture someone. Don't tons of military people have families? Just throw one of their kids in a room with the enemy. You know, like a three year old. Those kids like imitating people talk - if they can drive a parent crazy, surely they can drive a POW nuts and drive them to crack.
There are psychologists hired by the military to come up with ways of torturing people. Really, that's their job - to train other military personnel on how to torture POWs. Don't you think they could come up with ways of making a person spill their secrets that don't potentially cause people to die? I do.
What I can't understand is how these people go around bragging about their intelligence and how the military does all these studies all the time, yet all they can come up with is waterboarding? It can kill a person! It can cause brain or lung damage!
What good is torturing a person to get information if they're too fucked up to give it to you? There are so many more humane ways you could torture someone. Don't tons of military people have families? Just throw one of their kids in a room with the enemy. You know, like a three year old. Those kids like imitating people talk - if they can drive a parent crazy, surely they can drive a POW nuts and drive them to crack.
There are psychologists hired by the military to come up with ways of torturing people. Really, that's their job - to train other military personnel on how to torture POWs. Don't you think they could come up with ways of making a person spill their secrets that don't potentially cause people to die? I do.
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posted by Green at 11/12/2007 10:18:00 PM
1 Comments:
I don't have anything intelligent to counter with. All I have to add to your post is that everytime I'm listening to NPR and hear about waterboarding, my mind automatically goes to this mental picture of a guy wakeboarding.
And then I instantly think, "No, no, no...oh, that's not right at all."
DH's sporting activities are polluting my brain.
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