On
torture, I think the movie was frank, but it was frank from the
perspective of the torturer, and the torturer doesn't have to chill in a
stress position for hours upon hours. To that extent it invites us to
observe and move past the waterboarding in the same way we move by
mendicants, knowing of their suffering but never really dwelling on it.
Drones hit Iraqi military sites, hours after Iran attacked a U.S. base in
Qatar.
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The Iraqi authorities said that two facilities had been damaged and that
four other sites had been targeted. There was no immediate claim of
responsibility.
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