Tortured thinking

The debate over torture in the US has descended into tragic farce. Some on the right are so determined to always take the toughest position possible on any war on terror question that they sound like a Stephen Colbert parody of themselves. The most recent example of this is Deroy Murdock, normally someone whose writings are well worth reading, declaring that “Waterboarding is something of which every American should be proud.”

When those sympathetic to Murdock called him out for this and said that while waterboarding might be necessary in extreme circumstances—the ticking time bomb and the like—it is not a good thing per se, Murdock waded back in to say

“I AM complaining that we do NOT waterboard enough. Yes, we need to waterboard more.”