All excellent points, though once again, the ultimate guide is Divine Law.
When you have known as many men as I have who have been water-boarded, and known about it for 40 or 45 years, it takes some of the shock and passion off of hearing about as few as 3 bad guys having it done to them.
I don’t have to take a position on it, to want to have tried to splash a little dose of reality on that guy’s ranting, in an effort to get the discussion down to a more calm level.
I want to learn more about what people think about it, but first they needed a little perspective.