Playmate
Chris Durang blogged about torture on Huffington today to promote his new play. It’s called, he writes. . .
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, and — hoping you’ll forgive the “advertisements for myself” quality of this — it is a comedy, kind of in the Dr. Strangelove style but with a few more likable characters.
He agrees with Rich (see below) that the purpose of using techniques adapted from Chinese torturers seeking false confessions was not information discovery but rationales for pre-fab policy objectives (Iraq).
He doesn’t use the word treason.
He wants Obama to let investigations go forward without involving himself in them.
All very decent and moderate.
His post is neither in the Strangelove style, nor comedic, and it goes on and on and on.
Hopefully the play is tighter.
Its main characters are, he says, “a bit like Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.”
I’ll wait to see it on YouTube.