In an editorial today, the LAT takes John McCain to task for voting against a Dem bill that would have outlawed waterboarding, arguing that waterboarding is torture. The waterboarding argument is old and tiresome, because it never gets to the central issue: Is waterboarding torture? To the LAT, that isn't even a legitimate question. Everyone knows waterboarding is torture, end of story, the LAT seems to think.
But why? Waterboarding actually is a mild form of persuasion, doing no actual harm. Instead, it scares the person being waterboarded to the point of spilling the beans. Apparently, it's very effective, and, again, it does no damage to mind or body.
So, why are liberals apoplectic over waterboarding? It's political, and besides, no one has challenged them on their definition of torture.
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