Try Not to Think of a Waterboard

James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal "Best of the Web" takes the old Liberals like Dahlia Lithwick and the troglodytes of the NY Times to task as they explain how they would have captured Osama.

Of course, without waterboarding, Osama bin Laden might also be alive, and who knows how many Americans might be dead from unthwarted terrorist attacks, a point even Lithwick acknowledges toward the end of her piece: "I have heard that [waterboarding] may have played some very small part in a vast tangle of intelligence and surveillance and patient detective work."

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But the facts don't matter. Waterboarding is "Still Stupid, Still Wrong, Still Immoral," as the headline declares. Anyone who disagrees with Lithwick is also stupid, wrong and immoral. "Let's ignore them," she urges. Would that she had followed her own advice and not written this silly and obnoxious article.