“Abolishing torture will not make us safer,” said Richard Cohen in The Washington Post. But we should stop it anyway. “Before you can torture anyone, you must first torture the law. When that happens, we are all on the rack.”
It’s “not only wrong but irresponsible” to condemn enhanced interrogation techniques, said Peter Wehner in Commentary, without also considering the competing moral good of protecting our nation. Besides, waterboarding—“a very nasty technique to be sure”—is far more mild than “say, mutilation with electric drills" or rape.
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