The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: Torture, and Torturers |
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Years ago, I knew a woman from Iran, lived in California as a psychotherapist, and she was put in the position of having to help heal both Perians who had come to America to escape the torture they experienced under the Shah, and Persians who had beem torturers who had come to America to escape Khomeini ... she was an optimist, but finaliy decided that if healing was possible, they could never be in the same room together. She should have asked me, seems so obvious ...
The Tortured Lives of Interrogators
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"I tortured people," said Lagouranis, 37, who was a military intelligence specialist in Iraq from January 2004 until January 2005. "You have to twist your mind up so much to justify doing that."
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Not long ago in Iraq, he felt "absolute power," he said, over men kept in cages ... Now Lagouranis's power had dissolved into a weakness so fearful it dampened his upper lip. Sometimes, on the train, he has to get up and pace. But he can't escape. |
Recommended, but not just before dinner ... |
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