"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." Abraham Lincoln
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Hitchens, an immersive journalist
Christopher Hitchens let himself be waterboarded. Here's the video and here's his article describing it.
Yeah, this is quite something. I mean, I think the conclusion was pretty obvious beforehand (any argument for an interrogative technique that starts by saying, "well, it doesn't do any permanent damage," is probably out to justify a cruel and inhumane practice). But it's interesting.
Yeah, this is quite something. I mean, I think the conclusion was pretty obvious beforehand (any argument for an interrogative technique that starts by saying, "well, it doesn't do any permanent damage," is probably out to justify a cruel and inhumane practice). But it's interesting.
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