In response to the torture uproar, many of the blog post titles I’ve seen about it lately have been down the order of, “Torture does not work!” which I thought was kind of sad and beside the point, because I’ve considered whether torture works or not to not be the issue. Never mind that torture does not work, torture is torture and either you condone it or you don’t. It’s really that simple.
Friday morning I followed a Fox News link in the news just for the hell of it and was greeted with the happy smiling (“Trust me!”) picture of blue-eyed, white-blond-haired John Gibson, set off against a background of bright blue, dressed in a bright blue shirt (they said all that blue would play up the bluesy eyes I assume) and his “My Word” piece which was “Interrogation Techniques U.S. Uses Are Not Torture.”
John Gibson, making light of induced hypothermia and waterboarding, argues that Human Rights Watch “and others” have erroneously declared the interrogation techniques used by the U.S. to be torture, but they aren’t, and that, by the way, non-torture happens to work!
So John Gibson agrees you don’t have to torture to get information because not using torture works perfectly well.
Whatta world.
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