What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist--not inflict--it. Full Story »
Posted by Lewyn Li
Is this good journalism? Graydon Carter is a vulture, seeking affirmation for his bankrupt glossy that feeds off trend and popularity, with a perpetual finger to the wind for hot copy. This is the man who featured the ultimate failures of the Bush administration, the people who ensured misery for millions, both abroad and at home, in superhero costumes on the front of his vaunted publication. Hitchens drinks a few drops of Poland Spring and declares it torture after about 7 years of cheerleading for a war and its neoconservative architects, the very people for whom torture is a marquee policy, and readers are supposed to genuflect at his courage? So yes, devoid of history and context this article might--might--have some import. Given history and context, unless they devote the rest of their mutual lives to the tragic mistake they supported and the role they played in it, this article and this magazine, amounts to porn for yuppees who fancy themselves in touch with the hipper things in life, like surgically altered tits and the degradation of brown people.
