I believe we've been doing that sort of thing over in Gitmo.

It really bothers me. Years ago we had an anorexic young man at the state hospital where I worked. He was staving to death. The nurses got a Dr's order to use an NG tube to feed him. I can still see him in restraints with that tube in his nose. He chose to eat after a couple of feedings.

It seems like a brutal way to save someone. But I have to say I've seen it work.

It allows you to torture and label it as "care". Dental care with a cooperative dentist can be good for that too. I would be surprised if this is not just explicitly legalizing what is being done already. We can't have these inmates starving themeselves to death (which is not a bad way to die, as these things go), it looks bad and we'd have to lay people off.

I expect you'd see it anywhere the guards think they can get away with it, and neither the Israelis not the Pentagon can really claim to have invented it or be the most proficient practitioners either.

But yeah, definitely echoes Gitmo. I don't really get why they are resisting closing Gitmo, it's like not wanting to remove a big wart on the end of your nose.

Apartheid sucks.