Perhaps, but waterboarding makes you THINK you are going to die. You don’t actually die. You are not actually physically hurt. So, you get all the benefits of “torture” without the actual “torture” part.
Get it?
Good stuff, waterboarding.
I don’t really have any questions re waterboarding. We, as a nation can’t risk the reciprocity when our troops are captured by an enemy. Not being well adapted to doublethink, I just can’t see that it’s a good strategy.