Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney, telling us how “brave” the torturers were. “Enhanced Interrogation” is of course PR-speak for torture.
The Enhanced Interrogation Program saved lives, prevented attacks, & produced intel that led to Osama bin Laden. The techniques were the same as those used on our own people in the SERE program. No one should slander the brave men & women who carried out this crucial program. https://t.co/IXQuldr1R6
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) March 13, 2018
Hannah Arendt on Himmler doing the same thing:
The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German army…Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler – who apparently was rather strongly afflicted with these instinctive reactions himself – was very simple and probably very effective: it consisted in turning these reactions around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!
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3 responses to “The brave men and women who torture prisoners”
The ‘this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you’ defence.
Can we have some evidence of this, please?
Quite ‘ordinary units’ of the German Army and civilian police engaged in mass murders in the first few weeks of the Poland campaign.