Or maybe Russian health resorts are just particularly brutal. (Wouldn't surprise me; the standard Russian treatment for heroin addiction is to chain the addict to a bed for two weeks and beat them when they complain. Apparently it has a very low recidivism rate.)
Hmm. Someone should suggest that rehabilitation method to John Howard.
Don't. He's already orgasmic thanks to the war...
Yeah, right. And the American kids that come back from the Mexican and Caribbean 're-education' gulags are saying "If my parents didn't send me here, I'd be dead by now!" "Why would you be dead now?" *glassy stare* *pause* "If my parents didn't send me here ..."
I reckon Uncle Sam might have told this individual something along the lines of "... If you don't want us to pay your Chechen brothers a visit once we finish up in Iraq ..."