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Per usual, it’s brilliant. Here’s a bit:
I’ve helped foreign victims, who, I’m convinced, had been tortured, find their way in America, and my final verdict on waterboarding is that it’s a pretty humane way to torture a person. I would much ‘rather,’ that is, wind up being waterboarded than being stuck in Eli Roth’s Hostel. This seems like a crude point to make, but if reasonable people can differ on abortion they certainly can on fake drowning. As much as I’m foursquare opposed to torture, I’m not therefore opposed to whatever people say torture is.
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