MUSIC APPRECIATION

Sy Hersh talks about the road
from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. How come nobody talks about
the link between American pop culture and Guantanamo? Oops. Somebody just has.
Not in so many words, but you could infer it from today’s report
in The New York Times about interrogators at Guantanamo
who used Limp Bizkit, Rage
Against the Machine and Eminem to torture their prized prisoners. A Pentagon
spokesman claims it wasn’t torture. Hell, when so many Americans willingly subject
themselves to Bizkit, RATM and Slim Shady for pleasure, there’s a certain logic to the claim. You
say the prisoners were stripped, shackled and forced to listen? Sounds kinky. Just a
bit of body discipline, the next step up from body-piercing.

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