Cooling off in the summer heat
Lots of people must have been lined up for the opportunity to waterboard Hitchens. Or at least watch.
While I’m sure that it’s not really the greatest way to spend an afternoon, I can’t imagine it could be much worse than actually having to read Vanity Fair. In fact, I will be having this done to me (the waterboarding, not reading VF - that would be inhumane!) next summer. Next year, I will (most likely) have the chance to embed in Af’stan with the cool kids, and I wish to have certain things done for shits and giggles. I wish to be waterboarded. And tasered (though not at the same time, because holy crap! just think of the current!). Wet t-shirt contest in the desert!!
Why?
Because if a soft wussy Canadian chick can have it done and survive, then a blood-thirsty terrorist who trained in the barren mountains of Pakistan can bloody well handle it.
Like Hitch himself, I imagine there would be quite a lineup of people wanting to do this to me. If they’re willing to travel to a war zone to do, they are more than welcome.
I don’t know about lining up to watch you get waterboarded, but the wet t-shirt contest has possibilities…
Comment by Erik The Red — July 3, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
Lemme get this straight. You want to be waterboarded so you can prove it’s not torture? Well, good luck with that.
Comment by Raphael Alexander — July 3, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
I’m not denying it’s torture. I just don’t believe it’s so extreme that everyone should get their knickers in a knot over it. They aren’t killing anyone - just using extreme interviewing techniques!
RG
Comment by Right Girl — July 3, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
Getting waterboarded and tasered isn’t so bad, but if anyone ever offers to pepper-spray you, don’t take them up on it….
Comment by Alex — July 4, 2008 @ 4:24 pm