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Enhanced Interrogation
19 May 2008 07:04 pm
A reader writes:
Last night I was clicking back and forth between the Mets/Yankees game The Empire Strikes Back on cable. I hadn't watched Empire in a long time. There's a scene where Darth Vader tortures Han Solo (which occurs off-screen, but Han's screams are audible). Han is then dumped into the room with Lando and Pricess Leia, and the Imperial thug says contemptuously, "Don’t worry. He won't be permanently damaged." So include Darth Vader -- Darth fucking Vader -- among the prestigious company we're keeping with our sure-it-hurts-like-hell-but-if
-it-doesn't-leave-a-mark-it
-ain't-torture approach to interrogation.
The Nazis came up with this argument first. It took half a century before Bush and Cheney followed their lead.
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