Color me astonished! I’ve never been a Hitchens’ fan. In fact, if anything, I’ve loathed the man. But even “broken clocks are right twice a day” and in this case, Hitchens gets it right. Bush apologist, right-winger Hitchens decided to undergo waterboarding to see whether he would be convinced that it was torture. He wrote about his experience 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… But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict….”
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