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There is a significant and distinct difference between what the Japanese did and the EIT used by interrogation specialists. Waterboarding is a highly controlled technique, not immersion or drowning. Waterboarding is used to extract information, which is then cross checked against additional sources of information and other data lines; the Japanese did it for fun...that is why they were tried, convicted and executed as war criminals. McCain was tortured; I can see why he has reservations against any sort of physical or emotional EIT. But the bottom line is that techniques we used in the past worked. Whether or not people favor "torture" as punishment for whatever reasons is irrelevant. If you stick a drill in someones knee because it gives you a willy, you are torturing them and deserve whatever retrebution you recieve. And I agree, "The desire for, and the extraction of, vengeance..." is wholly out of moral bounds. Understandable in many cases but still reprehensible. There are very fine lines that can easily be crossed, the application of EIT has, for the greatest part, been kept "clean". An unpleasant business, but legal and effective.
By Rex Machina

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