What is torture?
Is it waterboarding? Bikini waxing? High school?
My latest at Examiner doesn’t look at “what Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it”, but rather if what was done to Jihadists was torture at all. I think the world needs a little less handwringing and a little more perspective.
We must keep in perspective that our enemies do not have the level of civilization that we do. When they capture one of our sons (or worse yet, daughters), they do not have a medical team standing by to revive them if something goes wrong. Just because Christopher Hitchens, an ivy-league toff, wasn’t able to withstand more than four seconds of waterboarding does not necessarily make it torture.
Please check it out, and in the comments feel free to leave me your “”BLANK” is worse than waterboarding” suggestions.
Shagging Nancy Pelosi!
Comment by Greg K — May 21, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
Listening to Celine Dion is waterboarding for me.
Comment by BillyHW — May 21, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
Having to listen to old hippies yak on and on about how incredible Obama is while trying to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.
The worst torture was when they started in on Palin. At that point, fortunately I’d finished eating, b/c that was torture I could not bear, and my life partner and I had to excuse ourselves and go home.
Comment by Drake8 — May 22, 2009 @ 8:44 am
Someone using the term “life partner.”
Sorry. Just wrong on so many levels.
Comment by Mike Williams — May 23, 2009 @ 3:15 am
Agreed! The detainees culture and former daily lives were harsher than our forms of “torture” for them. I saw a clip of Ann Coulter mentioning that anyone who has been through a college hazing or grew up with older brothers has lived through worse. It’s true. If waterboarding is torture than either we are ninnies who have never seen actual torture and have no right to even begin to define the term or, our enemy has a lower tolerance for discomfort than a sorority girl, in which case a few mixed drinks and a Daughtry track would supply us with all the info we need.
Comment by SeniorDrill — May 23, 2009 @ 7:14 am
Shagging Nancy Pelosi? I do agree that would be torture. And I know a guy from the Bay area that told me he would do her in a second!!!!!!! Sad man, indeed.
How about the old way of crossing the Equator on a Man-of-War? This was pre-PC and pre-Coed aboard ship. Some of my relatives referred to it as hazing and a few even called it torture. Being a “Shellback”, I cannot fully disclose what happened on that day, 28 December 1980, in the Indian Ocean. But the picture I sent my mother caused her to have a fit. She told me that there should be a congressional investigation. To any who have been in the Sea Services, that is an affront to something we take pride in.
Maybe it is “torture” to some but to us, it was one hell of a day!!!!!
Comment by Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET — May 23, 2009 @ 9:09 am
Worse than waterboarding:
* watching moonbats destroy America
* eating a whole spoonful of wasabi by itsels
* the new Sherlock Holmes movie (watching this might constitute torture for the literate; debate? )
* any method of abortion (Ann Coulter: “Could we abort the terrorists?” )
* cockroaches
Comment by RockDove — May 23, 2009 @ 11:18 am
You don’t have to waterboard anyone.
Just make sure for 18 hours a day all the Islamists must watch in varying degree’s: The View, Desperate Housewives, & Sex in the City.
This could be conscrewed as brain washing or punishment beyond reasonable bounds. But hey its not Waterboarding, & the Gitmo Boy’s can have TV. Maybe vary it with the Midget Channel.
Comment by Revnant Dream — May 23, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
In Afghanistan, they tortured a young man by cutting off his nose, ears, lips and tongue, gouged out one eye( and saved the other so that he might see their handiwork..) forced him to drink motor oil and bleach, whipped him with electrical cords, broke all his fingers and toes, dislocated his hip and tried to force melted lead into his rectum.To top it all off, they were about to immerse his feet in battery acid when coalition soldiers rescued and treated him
Why?
He taught girls to read and write and think critically.
His girls had acid thrown in their faces, blinding two of them, others had horrific burns. Thankfully, he is being brought to Canada for treatment that will include extensive plastic surgery and possibly citizenship as he is amongst the small group of interpreters that helped Canada, who are being brought here.
Never forget who we are fighting, or what we need to do in order to protect ourselves and defeat our enemy.They give no quarter, nor should we.
Comment by Kursk — May 27, 2009 @ 12:00 am
When a President says its OK to use torture, as long as it is ONLY used on our enemies, and ONLY to get “valuable” intelligence, it inevitably leads to the same tortures being used on regular criminals and eventually citizens.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jqoy5muPs-HcGznI3LnDxdBvYPrwD98NDHN01
Comment by John IV — June 12, 2009 @ 1:20 am