Waterboarding - a modern pedagogy

Waterboarding - a modern pedagogy

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Published on February 8th, 2010, 11:40 am
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A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.

Good to see him using his military training for civilian purposes.

Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.
Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his daughter only four weeks earlier, admitted choosing the punishment because the girl was terrified of water.
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Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows.
Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend.
She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat.
Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: 'Daddy did it.'

See, it's not torture, not according to O'Reily, Hannity and Beck

This is part of the general problem that our military has had trouble with since Vietnam. Part of boot camp training is to mentally condition soldiers to kill without thinking, to have trained violence set on a hair trigger. This makes them far more effective as soldiers, living in hostile territory. But de-programming that training for civilian life has been less than totally effective. What the military shrinks are doing to address the problem in general terms, or to improve soldier re-integration to general society after they leave the military, I don't know. I bet it would be really interesting story, though.

Hey... my 5 year old get's her alphabet.... but tying shoes.... whoa.... that takes some serious patience... I'm telling you.