Professor’s Classroom…..from time to time I like to teach a class on my blog…..hopefully it will inflame a discussion……today we will talk about…..TORTURE!

Several years ago I wrote a post about torture….it was in the days when FOX and MSNBC and CNN were running their pundits out to either support or oppose the fact that the US was using water boarding and other techniques to extract information from detainees……..I feel about them as I feel about Vietnam….if you were not there then your opinion is a moot point!

My post back then was very short and to the point……

“Having personal knowledge of torture…I say….”try it then we will talk”!

Whether good intel is extracted or not…..talk is talk….and NO one has ever asked the question….”What about after the torture?”  Have you ever heard the question asked?

There is an answer to my question…….

(Newser) – Torture doesn’t just hurt you once, it keeps on hurting you forever, a new study in the European Journal of Pain suggests. Researchers examined 104 Israeli soldiers who fought in the 1973 war between Syria and Egypt, 60 of whom had been taken captive and tortured, gauging their reaction to mild pain stimuli like heating pads and pressing a nylon fiber into a finger. The POWs exhibited a significantly stronger response, Medical Daily reports.

“The human body’s pain system can either inhibit or excite pain,” the lead author explained. “In Israeli ex-POWs, torture appears to have caused dysfunction in both directions.” Another interesting finding: Even POWs who hadn’t been physically tortured, but had been subjected to isolation, mock executions, and other harsh treatment, exhibited altered responses, Pacific Standard notes, which could change our very definition of what constitutes torture. It’s unclear, however, whether the torture directly caused the change, or whether chronic pain over the intervening 40 years had played a role.

Torture is not what a civilized country does!  It is that goddam simple!

Any thoughts?

Class dismissed………