2008-07-02 Believe Me, It's Torture
{{#vardefine:keylist|}}{{#vardefine:Date|2008-07-02}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Date}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|2008-07-02}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|[[{{#var:Date}}]]}}{{#vardefine:Topics|\Christopher Hitchens/writings\torture\waterboarding\Vanity Fair/articles\American dishonor}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Topics}}{{#vardefine:Topics.disp|\Christopher Hitchens/writings\torture\waterboarding\Vanity Fair/articles\American dishonor}}{{#vardefine:URL|http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808}}{{#vardefine:keylist%7C{{#var:keylist}}\URL}}{{#vardefine:URL.disp%7Chttp://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808}}{{#vardefine:Title%7CBelieve Me, It’s Torture}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Title}}{{#vardefine:Title.disp|Believe Me, It’s Torture}}{{#vardefine:Text|“One used to be told—and surely with truth—that the lethal fanatics of al-Qaeda were schooled to lie, and instructed to claim that they had been tortured and maltreated whether they had been tortured and maltreated or not. Did we notice what a frontier we had crossed when we admitted and even proclaimed that their stories might in fact be true? I had only a very slight encounter on that frontier, but I still wish that my experience were the only way in which the words “waterboard” and “American” could be mentioned in the same (gasping and sobbing) breath.” Comments: Pharyngula }}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Text}}{{#vardefine:Text.disp|“One used to be told—and surely with truth—that the lethal fanatics of al-Qaeda were schooled to lie, and instructed to claim that they had been tortured and maltreated whether they had been tortured and maltreated or not. Did we notice what a frontier we had crossed when we admitted and even proclaimed that their stories might in fact be true? I had only a very slight encounter on that frontier, but I still wish that my experience were the only way in which the words “waterboard” and “American” could be mentioned in the same (gasping and sobbing) breath.” Comments: Pharyngula }} {{#xploop:{{#var:Topics}}||}} {{#xploop:{{#var:keylist}}|\n* $s$: \o#var:$s$.disp\c}}