So you people mean to tell me you would rather watch 100 million Americans die needlessly in the name of morals instead of waterboarding a TERRORIST that would kill you given the chance who could stop mass destruction by simply waterboarding him to get the info from him?
And you call me paranoid?
Do you seriously think the CIA in all their infinite wisdom and skill is going to pick up the one guy who is wearing the shirt that says "Terrorist" and also has the words "I know where the bomb is!" tatooed on his forehead?
Do you think that 100 million will blow up next week or not, based on a single case of waterboarding?
Do you think that we are safe now only because of waterboarding?
Really? Our future hinges on that scenario?
I am less worried about potential situations that sound like an episode of 24 and more afraid of the potential situations that sound like a bad episode of cops (where they raid the wrong house or I guess waterboard the wrong guy).
My world view is filled with stressed people who make mistakes on the orders of underpaid and overworked bureaucrats at the behest of ignorant or corrupt politicians. My world view is not filled with showdowns between our best hero and their best super-villain.