Caution: vile, disgusting rationale being employed below.
From America's friends at National Review Online:
"The most constructive path forward would be for Congress to put aside legalisms and empty phrases and work its way through interrogation practices, starting with the least controversial. Is dietary manipulation "cruel"? Are cold rooms? Is sensory deprivation? Is being made to stand for hours? How about an "attention grab," i.e., shaking a detainee? Sleep deprivation? A belly slap? We think these methods would all pass muster in any rational debate, provided they are applied within reason (there is a difference between standing for two hours and twenty hours)."
My bolding. Earth to NRO: when you torture someone, you are not concerned with reason or rational thinking. Your only hope is to inflict pain either out of sadistic desire or to gain useless information or both. There is also a difference between standing for two hours in a grocery waiting line or being forced to stand outside naked in the freezing cold for hours.
More enlightenment:
"Then Congress could make its way to the most aggressive techniques, such as water-boarding, which simulates drowning. It has reportedly been effective in breaking high-level al Qaeda detainees within seconds, but is a practice with which most people would be uncomfortable. It is at least close to the line of what constitutes torture, and is certainly "cruel" in almost every circumstance."
IT IS TORTURE! Waterboarding was used by the goddamn crazed Khmer Rouge. These atrocities are well documented, do the research. Please stop the handwringing and the pathetic attempt to justify this barbaric behavior on the account that your perfect, comfortable life was shattered on 9/11.
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