re: #691 Guanxi88

… In the end, I was unable to avoid assimilating waterboarding to torture. It is torture, in my estimation, and I have no problem with its use in military and national security and intelligence settings to obtain actionable information not otherwise obtainable. It compromises us, but we have always the possibility of reform when we go astray.

I’m with you.
If someone was threatening an action that I knew would result in the death of my child, and I had access to a person who I could torture in order to get information to save her life, I would do it in a heartbeat.

In the case of the country - we are the children, the Gov’t is the “parent” responsible for our protection. If using waterboarding in a small number of cases will result in information that can be used to save the lives of our citizens, I have no problem with it’s use.