Of course we do not want to be as bad as the enemy but it's clear that water boarding, which is non lethal and hardly as painful as say stoning, head severing or hanging a body from a bridge, works.
"Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday.Sometimes violence is necessary.
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" were used to extract information that led to the mission's success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged."