Quote: By the McCain logic, the killing is fine but the infliction on a terrorist of non-lethal discomfort to obtain the intelligence necessary to do the killing should subject the inflictor to prosecution. That's absurd.
I love that euphemism. "Non-lethal discomfort". Nice one.
The difference between killing a terrorist about to detonate a bomb, and torturing an unarmed defenceless suspect for information, is enormous.
