Rape is routinely used as a weapon of terror and torture. Yet do we imagine female soldiers--or any female--would sign up for rape survival school that involved repeated rape? Would you council your wife, "Hey honey, why don't you go get repeatedly raped? I think it would prepare you better in case is happens to you." Would you say to your husband, "Sweetheart, why don't you take that rape survival trainer position?"

Because of the link to the Bush torture program, we learn this logic was actually implemented at SERE schools. How many of our citizens are torture survivors, or torturers? What are the long-term consequences? Where is the evidence that torturing does anything other than harm the victim and the perpetrator?