Breaking down torture

From the Wall Street Journal last week:

No one has yet come up with any evidence that anyone in the U.S. military or government has officially sanctioned anything close to "torture." The "stress positions" that have been allowed (such as wearing a hood, exposure to heat and cold, and the rarely authorized "waterboarding," which induces a feeling of suffocation) are all psychological techniques designed to break a detainee.

So let me ask you this. If other of these techniques were used on you, would you admit to anything and everything your torturers technique artists asked you to?

Ask yourself that the next time you think that one of these techniques is a positive for American intelligence.

Link, and more, from Andrew Sullivan.