Jason and Jeff have just published another exposé for Truthout, demonstrating how every single prisoner at Guantánamo was forced to "take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called 'pharmacologic waterboarding.'"
Wikipedia has this to say about mefloquine.
Mefloquine may have severe and permanent adverse side effects. It is known to cause severe depression, anxiety, paranoia, aggression, nightmares, insomnia, seizures, birth defects, peripheral motor-sensory neuropathy, vestibular (balance) damage and central nervous system problems.
Right before I got sick in 2007 I was dating an Army captain. Her infectious disease prevention unit had spent the previous year at Bagram, Afghanistan. She related a story about being on Chloroquinine to prevent malaria. It made her really paranoid, so much so that she jabbed her commanding officer in the gut with the butt of her M4 when he came up too quietly behind her. She'd been showing other signs of paranoia and they switched her to something different after that event.
My own personal experiences with Chroloquinine came as a result of Lyme treatment. Lyme is actually a cluster of infectious agents and one of them, babesiosis, is a malaria like parasite.
I was given Plaquenil, the trade name for hydroxychloroquinine. The doctor warned me in advance - "This stuff will likely make you very paranoid. Tell your family and coworkers when you start taking it."
And those were very wise words indeed, because I got a demon case of "someone is after me" about forty eight hours after I started taking the stuff. My ears rang constantly and my balance was affected. I was supposed to go six weeks and I only made it a month before checking the closet three times before going to (fitful) sleep got to me.
Without access to representation, let alone a proper trial, Muslim men are subjected to high doses of an outdated anti-malarial drug known to cause lasting neurological damage. The U.S. military obviously knows which drugs do and do not work for malaria prophylaxis, because our troops are treated properly. Even then those under treatment face serious side effects. This can not be described as anything but torture.
My parents' siblings and cousins died on the Bataan Death March, they landed in plywood gliders at Normandy, they came back from Bastonge with machine gun bullets that were never removed, they served in the Seabees and built base after base as we island hopped to Japan. The one who rode the glider into Normandy never talked about liberating concentration camps, but we all know what the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment and their counterparts found as they advanced into Nazi Germany.
America's Greatest Generation ground fascism under the heel of unionized American manufacturing might, and after the Nuremberg Trials those who experimented on humans beings faced the Doctor's Trial. Seven of the twenty three were found guilty and hanged.
So, I have to ask - what's wrong with our generation?