The miraculous healing power of Pringles

[RufusTFirefly]

This neocolonialist blindness is a running theme in the War on Terror. At the U.S.-run
prison at Guantanamo Bay, there is a room known as "the love shack." Detainees
are taken there after their captors have decided they are not enemy combatants and
will soon be released. Inside the love shack, prisoners are allowed to watch Hollywood
movies and are plied with American junk food... (According to British detainee Asif
Iqbal,) "We would get to watch DVDs, eat McDonald's, eat Pizza Hut and
basically chill out... The rest of the week we were back in the cages as usual...
On one occasion Lesley brought Pringles, ice cream and chocolates,
this was the final Sunday before we came back to England." (Iqbal's) friend
Rhuhel Ahmed speculated that the special treatment "was because they knew they
had messed us about about and tortured us for two and a half years and they hoped
we would forget it."

Ahmed and Iqbal had been grabbed by the Northern Alliance while visiting Afghanistan
on their way to a wedding. They had been violently beaten, injected with unidentified
drugs, put in stress positions for hours, sleep deprived, forcibly shaven and denied
all legal rights for twenty-nine months. And yet they were supposed to "forget
it" in the face of the overwhelming allure of Pringles. That was actually the
plan.

It's hard to believe -- but then again, that was pretty much Washington's
game plan for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, deliberately ruin its
infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make
it all okay with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported
junk food.

From pages 338-9 of Naomi Klein's terrific book, The Shock Doctrine (Boldfacing is mine. As are some but not all of the ellipses and parentheses.)

[JHB]

1. Pringles: the crack of processed potato-derived products n/t

[Ravy]

2. "that was pretty much Washington's game plan

for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, deliberately ruin its
infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make
it all okay with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported
junk food."



Sounds remarkably like their game plan for the United States as well.

[alfredo]

5. I've been telling people for years that the neo cons game was to

create chaos and then capitalize on it. I didn't have a name for it, now now Naomi has given it a name.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Bravo Alfredo! You and Naomi were right.

I'm three-quarters of the way through the book and highly recommend it.

[alfredo]

13. I read about their guru, Leo Strauss. That is where I learned

about their tactics.

[alfredo]

3. They want to fatten them up so they look healthier.

[rucky]

7. Bingo! n/t

[alfredo]

12. Of course they can't fatten their memories.

[me b zola]

15. There may be a bit more to it than that

Kind of reminds me of Pavlov's dogs. It seems as though it may be an attempt to psychologically connect "freedom" with western mass (idiotic) consumption. It certainly has worked on the majority of US citizens.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. After all this couldn't they find out where Osama Bin Ladin is?

the torture obviously didn't work?

[yellowcanine]

6. Just make sure they are not the "fat free" kind. Can you say "anal leakage"?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/182862349.html

Anal leakage is no joke.

[RebelOne]

10. They are not made anymore as aren't the Wow chips.

[pansypoo53219]

9. but but but pringles SUCK.

at least give em lay's or doritos for goodness sake. pringles is likely to make them hate us more.

[soothsayer]

14. Actually, Lays suck. Try Utz. But Pringles are a marvel unto themselves! Love 'em.

Just ate some today.

[Javaman]

11. "unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported junk food"

Pfft! the american government as been doing that to the US citizens for decades.