What clouds the visionWaterboarding was easily
recognized as torture when it was committed by those savage Spaniards,
and by those savage Filipinos, and by those savage Japanese, and by
those savage Germans, and by those savage French, and by those savage
Vietnamese, and by those savage Cambodians, and by those savage South
Africans. It was even easily recognized as torture when it was committed
by savage Americans acting contrary to orders.
Somehow, it's
only people who feel they personally benefit from it, and who don't
think of themselves as favoring torture, who can't see that
waterboarding is torture.