tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post3880396678698974015..comments2023-10-22T04:57:07.468-04:00Comments on <center>WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?</center><center> (J.D. Rhoades' Blog)</center>: Question Time JD Rhoadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123361739160525998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post-79660969089193768822014-04-21T21:45:55.347-04:002014-04-21T21:45:55.347-04:00I'm not sure about Hannity; I know that some f...I'm not sure about Hannity; I know that some folks who thought they'd show how not-torture it was found out that they couldn't last more than a few seconds. <br /><br />I've heard that in some training specialties, they'll expose troops to an irritant gas, which some folks might think sounds horrible, but it's an important lesson. Gas masks are hideously uncomfortable, and they need to make sure people understand on a gut level that *nothing* about that protection is more uncomfortable than not having it when you need it. <br /><br />Waterboarding and other "after you're captured" awfulness is partly for the same reason - make sure that a soldier(/sailor/rifleman/airman) realizes that however awful life on the run is, it's better than what a POW might face. No sleep, constant movement, and three irritated patches on your skin proving that you couldn't chow down on the last three hopefully-edible plants - but hey, you're not being waterboarded. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post-32296857135375733032014-04-20T12:42:06.416-04:002014-04-20T12:42:06.416-04:00Kelli: Agreed. We should not go to war over Crimea...Kelli: Agreed. We should not go to war over Crimea. <br /><br />johnpalmer: Didn't Sean Hannity once volunteer to be waterboarded, then backed out? JD Rhoadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123361739160525998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post-22468785236217314032014-04-20T00:09:57.464-04:002014-04-20T00:09:57.464-04:00One of my favorite defenses of waterboarding is th...One of my favorite defenses of waterboarding is that it's used during SERE training.<br /><br />It is. When the "you've been capture" part of the program starts, they tell you to sign a confession to having been involved with warcrimes. Legend has it one team managed to overpower their captors; but in all - *all* - other cases, everyone ends up signing. <br /><br />So people who know that it's their own people, and know that they won't be seriously injured or killed (except through some horrible accident), all make false confessions, but waterboarding prisoners in the war on terror would yield reliable confessions because...? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13172818.post-29075437110800888402014-04-19T19:23:04.603-04:002014-04-19T19:23:04.603-04:00The only question in that list that I can come up ...The only question in that list that I can come up with a possible answer to is the one about what would be a location for a base and supplies for action in Ukraine -- and it's a lousy answer: Turkey. Turkey is putatively an ally, a member of NATO, and might let us work from there. Maybe.<br /><br />There's not much use in doing so, though; it's across the Black Sea from Ukraine, a distance of some 250 miles from the north coast of Turkey to the middle of Crimea. That's a long supply train. I suppose some sort of naval support could be set up in the Mediterranean, but the naval presence would itself still have to be supported from somewhere, and we're back to Turkey.<br /><br />This logistics discussion is still separate from the issue of whether we *should* intervene; IMHO, we shouldn't.Kellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16472414342709027747noreply@blogger.com