re: #37 Obdicut

Waterboarding is torture. We said so during WWII, we said so when the Shining Path did it, and we were right. It is torture, and we should not torture.

I’m not morally pure, but he doesn’t have any due process. It’s a moral choice that taking the risk of killing innocents is worth the chance to kill someone who is a certainty of killing innocents.

As to the constitutionality: I have no clue. I am nowhere near the level of expertise in the constitution I’d have to have to approach that question.

So waterboarding KSM was not a moral choice? And we simply get to avoid affording people the due process that we now extend to all persons globally by killing them?

I know that one dimension of the last election was salvaging our collective morality from the impulses of heathen savages such as myself, but I am having a hard time figuring out how making splat marks of those we suspect of being associated with groups of people we suspect of things now delivers this country to a higher moral plane.