There are varying degrees of torture, as the politically-progressive playwright John F. Walter correctly differentiates. For instance, when contrasted to actual torture, waterboarding is more like foreplay. No thumbscrew, no pincers, no electrodes, no rack. Can one say this of those who have been captured by the tormentors & murderers of, say, Daniel Pearl? On this analysis, any call to indict the USA for torture is a lame & diseased attempt to arrive at a moral equivalence between those who defend civilization & those who exploit its freedoms to hollow it out, & ultimately destroy it.

Still, waterboarding is torture nonetheless, just as this bar is chocolate liquor-boarding, of the achingly tender kind with a huge sweet-spot that leads to an involuntary response for more. Should be on the tip of every lip as a gift certificate to the C-spa for kissy couples since this will get anyone laid... a little teasing cruelty as foreplay to a sex bomb blowing up the chocolate glory-hole & TASP-out into the pleasure centers.

Now if this all ain’t going overboard, what is?