Comments on: Abu Ghraib Torture Suit Against Defense Giant CACI Goes Forward http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/abu-ghraib-torture-suit-against-defense-giant-caci-goes-forward/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Koontz http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/abu-ghraib-torture-suit-against-defense-giant-caci-goes-forward/#comment-42001 Brian Koontz Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:20:14 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7400#comment-42001 "One might reasonably inquire: how does the application of insidious torture techniques culled from the CIA’s infamous KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual or the Pentagon’s Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual-1983 compendium, or reverse-engineered Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) tactics “save American lives.”" The primary point of torture is to terrorize the community of the torture victims. Torture is an act of war. So, for example, in Vietnam the Vietnamese were tortured. In Iraq Iraqis were tortured. Afghanistanis are tortured. Wherever the American military goes next the torture of it's people will follow. Torture is designed to create a perpetual feeling of terror and fear in the targeted populace, and in any other populace which may consider the option of resisting the will of the US and multinational elite. Torture is the physical inverse of the existential terror of the atomic bomb. Both have as one of their effects deterrance. While torture may, and usually does, galvanize resistance in the short term, ongoing torture during an ongoing war will eventually wear down resistance, at which point the torture acts as an effective deterrant and thus will "save American lives". The better question is "How far are we willing to go to save an American life?" Another is "Why do Americans have to go to far greater extremes to save their own lives than do people of other countries?" The biggest terrorist is the biggest criminal, and to avoid prosecution he keeps the world in a state of fear and terror so that they can never take revenge. CACI's role is to make sure the world can never take it's revenge. “One might reasonably inquire: how does the application of insidious torture techniques culled from the CIA’s infamous KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual or the Pentagon’s Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual-1983 compendium, or reverse-engineered Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) tactics “save American lives.””

The primary point of torture is to terrorize the community of the torture victims. Torture is an act of war.

So, for example, in Vietnam the Vietnamese were tortured. In Iraq Iraqis were tortured. Afghanistanis are tortured. Wherever the American military goes next the torture of it’s people will follow.

Torture is designed to create a perpetual feeling of terror and fear in the targeted populace, and in any other populace which may consider the option of resisting the will of the US and multinational elite.

Torture is the physical inverse of the existential terror of the atomic bomb. Both have as one of their effects deterrance.

While torture may, and usually does, galvanize resistance in the short term, ongoing torture during an ongoing war will eventually wear down resistance, at which point the torture acts as an effective deterrant and thus will “save American lives”.

The better question is “How far are we willing to go to save an American life?” Another is “Why do Americans have to go to far greater extremes to save their own lives than do people of other countries?”

The biggest terrorist is the biggest criminal, and to avoid prosecution he keeps the world in a state of fear and terror so that they can never take revenge.

CACI’s role is to make sure the world can never take it’s revenge.

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