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...without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking - are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where original sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. Oh essentially takes the major blame for all the awful things that have happened to him. And when he finally faces his captor, he goes medieval on himself: ripping out his tongue, begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes...
...without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking - are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. Oh essentially takes the major blame for all the awful things that have happened to him. And when he finally faces his captor, he goes medieval on himself: ripping out his tongue, begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes...
...fact, an odd custody battle for Kampusch's allegiance appears to be playing out publicly between her father and the memory of her captor, who threw himself under a train hours after Kampusch escaped. Christoph Feurstein, the journalist who conducted her television interview, says Kampusch is angry at her father for speaking on her behalf to the media; he told an interviewer that she would celebrate her captor's death. Kampusch, in fact, visited the morgue and saw her abductor before he was buried, and told the world she mourned his death...
...fair, the abusive interrogations of the 14 did lead to some actionable intelligence, but Bush's list fails to take into account the unnecessary costs of resorting to abuse--specifically, the lost opportunity to uncover more secrets by developing a rich captor-captive relationship, the loss of a democracy's moral authority and the poisoning of any eventual legal proceeding, which, of course, would disallow evidence gained through torture...
...Israelis. But even that could come with a price. When asked by intermediaries if the captors would be willing to provide signs of life, one captor replied, "Nothing is free." The Palestinians and Hizballah also refused Red Cross pleas that three Israeli prisoners - Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, along with Shalit - be allowed to contact their families...