Luddly Neddite
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'Whatever someone wants, you give it to them,' he said. 'You just do what you're told.'
'Nothing really has meaning to you anymore. Someone tells you "say this" and you say it.
'You just imagine whoever is watching it is smart enough to realise you haven't really got your heart in it.
'Once you lose hope you lose heart.'
Psychologists said Mr Foley and Mr Sotloff would have lost all sense of normality while in isolation.
Dr Chris Lennings, a forensic psychologist with more than 30 years experience, said: 'It's unimaginable to me, the amount of psychological pressure that would have been placed on them... particularly given the softening up process that would have taken place.'
'There would have been beatings, threats, sensory deprivation, all sorts of things would have been done to remove any sense of normality, any standard parameters by which they can judge their behaviour.
Psychology professor Mark Creamer, from the University of Melbourne, said the journalists' isolation from the outside world would have taken a heavy toll.
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This is just about as bad as it gets and my heart goes out to them for what they suffered before their deaths and for what their poor families are suffering through now.
I hate what John McCain is now but I have always wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt on this issue. And I wish ALL Americans felt that way about Bowe Bergdahl.
We have no idea what these people are put through but, if those we can get them out - they deserve a chance to have their side told.