re: #361 SanFranciscoZionist

And yet, it has to be done, because hardcore radical terrorists who will not budge under normal interrogation procedures crack when you waterboard them.

/Is it just me, or is there some kind of cognitive disconnect going on here?

Not really. SEALS tend to be people very comfortable in the water, they have to be. One of the “torture” training techniques sometimes used by Spec Forces is to have a person stand immobile in a vat of water up to their noses. Their nostrils are just avove the water and they can breath as long as they don’t move. They are not tied up. There is no punishment for getting out escept failure. People freak! It is inherently terrifying to most people to come close to drowning.