Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Don't Try This at Home

Christopher Hitchens agreed to undergo waterboarding to determine "whether it was torture?"

Here's the best thing I've seen written all day on this undignified publicity stunt:
Torture is any experience so horrible that no-one would consider trying it out simply for the purpose of writing a Vanity Fair article about what it’s like.
If I might add my first thoughts: A man of Hitchens' apparent physical condition has no business volunteering for something of this nature, a wartime coercion instrument:

Hitchens Waterboarding

See also, Allahpundit, "Video: The Obligatory “Hitchens Gets Waterboarded” Clip."

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