Terry McDermott

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The critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie Zero Dark Thirty has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture.

The movie dramatizes the decade-long effort to find and eventually kill Osama bin Laden. In a riveting opening section, the film obliquely credits the discovery of the key piece of information in the search for bin Laden to the torture of an al-Qaida prisoner held by the CIA. This is at odds with the facts as they have been recounted by journalists reporting on the manhunt, by Obama administration intelligence officials and by legislative leaders.

Bigelow and her writing partner, Mark Boal, are promoting Zero Dark Thirty in part by stressing its basis in fact.…  Seguir leyendo »

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I turned 20 years old sitting at a light table in a bright white building at a sprawling U.S. Air Forcebase in Saigon, South Vietnam. I was assigned to a reconnaissance unit, where my job was to select bombing targets in Cambodia. Then, as now, Cambodia did not have much in the way of traditional targets, and as an inexperienced targeteer, even when sober, I really had little idea what I was doing. That didn't slow things down much.

Given the means to attack — B-52s flying miles high above the landscape — and the desire, there was nothing that would stop the air assault.…  Seguir leyendo »