Fallen leftist and famously acerbic Brit journo Chris Hitchens has been 'rah rah hawk US foreign policy' for a while now. Like I've said before I respect he's a good writer and that he's clearly intelligent. I just don't agree with a lot of his views.
One of those views was on the most recent addition to the pantheon of evil weasel words, that of "enhanced interrogation". aka Torture. Hitchens believed EI was not torture and that Enhanced Interrogation was different.
I believe in Slate he even went as far to say Water Boarding wasn't torture. Sneering leftists said 'Really? Why don't you try it and see.'
To his credit Hitchens did.
You can read his article here.
His conclusion?
Yeah ... it's torture.
So good on him for having the stones to not only experience it but come back to the reading public and admit he was wrong.
Friday, July 04, 2008
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