Over at the National Review, the magazine’s editor, Andy McCarthy, wonders whether “those posturing over waterboarding [are] serious enough to be trusted with safeguarding the nation.”
One of his columnists, Deroy Murdock, goes further, chastising George Bush for not using waterboarding enough.
This is all the more reason for President Bush to reinstate waterboarding, proudly and publicly, so America can get the information we need to prevent Muslim-fanatic mass murder and win the Global War on Terror.
Appropriately enough, waterboarding is not used on American citizens suspected of tax evasion, sexual harassment, or bank robbery. Waterboarding is used on foreign Islamic-extremist terrorists, captured abroad, who would love nothing more than to blast innocent men, women, and children into small, bloody pieces. Some of them already have done so.
Pressed by one of his colleagues, Murdock clarifies his position:
[T]he whole point of my piece is that I AM complaining that we do NOT waterboard enough. Yes, we need to waterboard more. At the moment, waterbaording appears to have been banned by both the CIA and the Pentagon. As I say pretty directly in my piece, Bush should reinstate waterboarding publicly and proudly, and I called him deluded for thinking he would gain anything by going along with the Left and ditching waterboarding.
“I hope this clears up any confusion you might have had,” Deroy concludes.
