{"id":3230,"date":"2009-11-07T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2009-11-07T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:05:03","slug":"torture-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/torture-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal and left-wing critics of Bush\u2019s \u201cwar on terror\u201d have brandished the word \u201ctorture\u201d to refer to every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/15_1_terrorists.html\">stressful interrogation practice <\/a>that soldiers in Afghanistan and Guantanamo desperately and clumsily evolved in their effort to gather intelligence on presumed terror networks.\u00a0\u00a0 But when an argument requires describing the actual torture practiced by more ruthless regimes, suddenly American interrogation practices are demoted to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2009\/11\/03\/arar\/index.html\">abusive interrogation<\/a>,\u201d say, so as to recover and redeploy the original meaning of the term (officially defined as the intentional infliction of severe mental and physical pain and suffering) heretofore lost in the ecstatic (and sometimes justified) denunciation of Bush\u2019s anti-terror policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal and left-wing critics of Bush\u2019s \u201cwar on terror\u201d have brandished the word \u201ctorture\u201d to refer to every stressful interrogation practice that soldiers in Afghanistan and Guantanamo desperately and clumsily evolved in their effort to gather intelligence on presumed terror &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/torture-porn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}