'Board 'Em

I don't feel good about endorsing waterboarding, but I'm going to do
it anyway. For all of the reasons you've already listed, in addition to the
fact that it's morally justifiable to torture someone when the lives of others
are at stake, I'll defend waterboarding. That being said, I think the whole
debate is much ado about nothing. Firstly, the people that are being tortured
through waterboarding forfeited any natural rights they may have had when
they took up the cause of death and religious intolerance in the first place.
Secondly, as a means of interrogation, waterboarding isn't the most effective
technique. As any interrogator will tell you, gaining the detainee's trust is
the most important factor in determining the success of an interrogation.
Unfortunately, this takes time and when you don't have that luxury, it is
morally defensible to subject them to waterboarding.

-Ned-