...And he wrote that even though he knew those doing it meant him no harm, and he knew they would rescue him at the instant of the slightest distress, and he knew he would not die — still, with all that reassurance, he could not stop the terror screaming from inside of him, could not quell the horror, could not convince that which is at the core of each of us, the entity who exists behind all the embellishments we strap to ourselves, like purpose and name and family and love, he could not convince his being that he wasn't drowning.
That's why its effective. You even get this feeling if you force yourself to stay underwater trying to hold your breath longer than the other kid
Waterboarding, he said, is torture. Legally, it is torture! Practically, it is torture! Ethically, it is torture! And he wrote it down.
LOL it's not, no one has been able to prove it in court, there is not even any pain involved, just your primal instinct to survive comes to play. Nobody ever believed that putting terror in the enemies mind, or sleep deprivation, etc. was torture till lefties made up issues against Bush and the Republican administration. |
