Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.
Interpretation
Waterboarding is unethical and contrary to our moral principles.
This quote by Malcolm Nance emphasizes the inhumanity of using waterboarding as a means of interrogation. It asserts that such methods are not only ineffective but also violate fundamental human values and ethical standards.
In practice
In a debate about interrogation techniques during a panel discussion on human rights.
Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's actual end goal is far from political: ISIL believes that, through jihad, it will bring about the Day of Judgment. This is not true Islam.
I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa. I've lived a Muslim life and prayed in Mosques, Husseiniyahs, and shrines where needed. One must respect Islam to understand Islam. I've read the Quran through and through a half dozen times.
I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.
I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a 'stress demonstrator' to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.
Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.
But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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