{"id":195743,"date":"2008-06-17T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/surprise-torture-and-abuse-readicalizes-non-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T23:58:00","slug":"surprise-torture-and-abuse-readicalizes-non-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/surprise-torture-and-abuse-readicalizes-non-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Torture and Abuse Readicalizes Non-Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We discover, to our surprise, that people with no connection with al Queida, following imprisonment and abuse by the United States, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/227\/story\/38779.html\">they become they tend to find common cause with terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just our torture that does it, it&#8217;s also that the innocent people in these prisons mix with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">real<\/span> terrorists, and they learn from their inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am compelled to make the repeat the <a href=\"http:\/\/d-squareddigest.blogspot.com\/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html#89796111\">wisest thing that I&#8217;ve read this century<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But it does inspire in me the desire for a competition; can anyone, particularly the rather more Bush-friendly recent arrivals to the board, give me one single example of something with the following three characteristics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It is a policy initiative of the current Bush administration<\/li>\n<li>It was significant enough in scale that I&#8217;d have heard of it (at a pinch, that I should have heard of it)<\/li>\n<li>It wasn&#8217;t in some important way completely f#$@ed up during the execution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, these people couldn&#8217;t screw up anything any more if they were an actual al Queida sleeper cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discover, to our surprise, that people with no connection with al Queida, following imprisonment and abuse by the United States, they become they tend to find common cause with terrorists. It&#8217;s not just our torture that does it, it&#8217;s also that the innocent people in these prisons mix with real terrorists, and they learn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,982,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-stupid","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}