Right wing shock jock gets waterboarded… (for 6 seconds…)
Something I wish every proponent of this technique would try…
What is striking is that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times while being interrogated by the CIA. One would think that sometime about say time #20 or so, someone would have clued into the reality that it’s not working (torture really doesn’t work) and tried something like real interrogators use…
May 24th, 2009 at 11:39 am
By far the most fascinating video I have seen in 300 years.
An intense capsule of the oldest trick in the book, befriend your enemy to get information.
But what is more fascinating to me is the reversal of the water effect. One, waterboarding (new to me, oh my good grief…) is to instill real terror which could only result in the total fracturing of any beneficial relationship. I assume hatred would be the final outcome.
The other approach, non violent and superbly ingenious and sophisticated. Seems to bring a different result based on water. A water of relationship that brings life and trust. Although manipulative; not harmful. Simply ingenious.
The real weapon of mass destruction in this world, in my opinion, is to withhold the water of life. To withhold mercy. To withhold the goodness of our hearts. To live in fear, to live in recalcitrant defiance of all that is good, right, noble and true. To withhold love in freedom.
We are all truly at the mercy of God and each other. At the mercy of the bestowal of love. The one thing we cannot force is love. You cannot make someone love you or receive your love. The good news tho is that It is a force all it’s own.
While the water boarding seemed to depend on large volumes in quick measure…
The other tactics were largely dependent on time, patience, and presence. Trickles of water.
In other words it doesn’t take long to waste a heart, but it certainly appears to take time to win one.
What is most striking to me (aside from the incredible attractiveness of George Piro – yes I am a girl) is in part 2 of the interview.
When the interviewer asks Piro if Saddam was afraid of dying in light of his impending execution he visibly shifts in his chair.
It appears at least to me that a connection which began in manipulation, resulted ultimately in a real connection. One where there was trust and need, (dependance), some form of true bonding, to which not even the manipulator was resistant …..
The really wild thing is that God gives us all the opportunity to do this in an uncontrolled environment. There are no walls and well timed variables like in a science lab.
It is wild, risky, painful, passionate, blessed, too many things.
But I would say if there any walls, they are around our hearts. And the well timed variables are all of God’s mercy.
May we have mercy on each other. Mercy to bestow love on each other. Mercy to give the water of life. Streams of it. Out of our hearts which have been freed by the Master. How I long for this. How I am grateful for God’s mercy to me. How if all of our men knew this and asked for courage, real courage, all the girls would be revealed as radiant and regal. God, raise us all up.
Micah 6:8 And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Hi Vivien,
“Ingenious and sophisticated,” are invariably terms that are not associated with mad with power and bent on such — they are the tools of love.
Irony here — the only really successful interrogation was done of Saddam — in the face of massive pressure from the VP’s office to try and force him to sink to the ineffective tactics used everywhere else…
Cal