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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.
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
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Adm. Alvin Holsey is leaving less than a year into his tenure, and as the
Pentagon escalates attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea.
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