Want to know if waterboarding is torture?想知道如果waterboarding是酷刑？ Ask Christopher Hitchens問克里斯托弗希欽斯
By通過 Jon Henley 瓊亨利 | Late last year, the writer, polemicist and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq Christopher Hitchens attempted, in a piece for the online magazine Slate, to draw a distinction between what he called techniques of “extreme interrogation” and “outright torture”. |去年年底，作家， polemicist和激烈的倡議者以美國為首的入侵伊拉克的克里斯托弗希欽斯企圖，在一塊為在線雜誌Slate ，之間作出區分他所謂的技術“極端審問”和“買斷賣斷酷刑“ 。
From this, his foes inferred that since it was Hitchens’ belief that America did not stoop to the latter, the practice of waterboarding - known to be perpetrated by US forces against certain “high-value clients” in Iraq and elsewhere - must fall under the former heading.從這個，他的敵人推斷，因為它是希欽斯的信仰，美國不彎腰向後者，實踐waterboarding -已知為所犯下的美軍對某些“高價值客戶”在伊拉克和其他地方-必須屬於前者的標題。
Enraged by what they saw as an exercise in elegant but offensive sophistry, some of the writer’s critics suggested that Hitchens give waterboarding (which may sound like some kind of fun aquatic pastime, but is probably best summarised as enforced partial drowning) a whirl, just to see what it was like.大為憤怒，他們所看到的作為行使在優雅的，但進攻的詭辯，一些作家的批評建議，希欽斯給予waterboarding （這可能聽起來像是某種形式的樂趣水產消遣，但可能是最好的概述強迫部分溺水）旋轉，只是為了看看有什麼是一樣。 Did the experience feel like torture?沒有經驗的感覺酷刑？
And amazingly, he has done just that.和令人驚訝的是，他所做的只是。 In August’s edition of Vanity Fair, you can read all about it, and see more photographs of the “wheezing, paunchy, 59-year-old scribbler”, his head hooded, being subjected to this most terrifying of ordeals by veterans of the US Special Forces.在8月出版的名利場，您可以閱讀所有關於它，看到更多的照片， “喘鳴， paunchy ， 59歲的scribbler ” ，他的頭部戴頭罩，受到這個最可怕的磨難，由退伍軍人美國特種部隊。 A video is due to be posted soon at視頻是由於張貼盡快在 vf.com vf.com , though that may be a bit too much to bear. ，儘管這可能有點太多負擔。
So what did it feel like?因此，什麼感覺？ Hitchens recounts how he was lashed tightly to a sloping board, then, “on top of the hood, three layers of enveloping towel were added.希欽斯重新他是如何被抨擊緊緊一坡董事會，那麼， “再加上引擎蓋，三層包絡毛巾加入。 In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose … I held my breath for a while and then had to exhale and - as you might expect - inhale in turn.”在這懷孕的黑暗，頭部向下，我等待，直到我突然感到一種緩慢的梯級水不斷上升，我的鼻子… …我舉行了我的呼吸了一會兒，然後不得不和呼出-正如你可能期望-吸，從而“。
That, he says, “brought the damp cloths tight against my nostrils, as if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face. ，他說， “所帶來的潮濕抹布緊張對我國的鼻孔，猶如一個巨大，濕足已突然annihilatingly箝位超過我的臉。 Unable to determine whether I was breathing in or out, flooded more with sheer panic than with water, I triggered the pre-arranged signal” and felt the “unbelievable relief” of being pulled upright.無法確定我是否是呼吸或調出，淹沒更多的與純粹的恐慌比與水，我引發了預先安排的信號“ ，並認為”令人難以置信的救濟“的拉正派。
The “official lie” about waterboarding, Hitchens says, is that it “simulates the feeling of drowning”. “官方謊言”約waterboarding ，希欽斯說，是因為它“模擬溺水的感覺” 。 In fact, “you are drowning - or rather, being drowned”.事實上，在“你是溺水-或者更確切地說，被淹死” 。
He rehearses the intellectual arguments, both for (”It’s nothing compared to what they do to us”) and against (”It opens a door that can’t be closed”).他rehearses智力的論點，都為（ “這沒有什麼好相比，他們的所作所為給我們” ）和反對（ “它打開一個門不能關閉” ） 。 But the Hitch’s thoroughly empirical conclusion is simple.但順利的徹底的實證的結論是，簡單。 As Vanity Fair’s title puts it: “Believe me, it’s torture.”作為名利場的標題所說： “相信我，它的酷刑” 。
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