Kramer on “The Water Cure”
I missed this article when it first appeared in The New Yorker last February: Paul Kramer’s The Water Cure. It’s a review of the politics that (briefly) swirled around our government’s previous use of waterboarding as an instrument of state policy (during the Phillipine-American War, fought from 1899 to 1902).
It’s a depressingly familiar story.
I’ve been caught up in the emotion of the presidential campaign, but over my last few commutes I went back and re-listened to Lies.com podcasts 22 through 28, and it reminded me of how big a mess the new President Obama is going to have to clean up.
