Drawing a Line in the Water

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Sometimes even a senator makes sense, which is good when all about him other senators are making silly, adopting a feel-good prohibition on the interrogation technique called "waterboarding."

Fifty-one senators concluded that waterboarding - restraining a prisoner and giving him the sensation of drowning - constitutes torture, and adopted legislation to forbid it. America is a better country than that.

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Drawing a Line in the Water

That was the argument, and it sounds good, particularly to people with no responsibility for protecting themselves or anyone else. But George W. Bush is not one of those people, and yesterday ...

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