How low can torture apologizers go?

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How low can torture apologizers go? This low:

We now know that Islamists believe their religion forbids them to cooperate with infidels – until they have reached the limit of their ability to endure the hardships the infidel is inflicting on them. Imagine an al-Qaeda member who would like to give his interrogators information, who does not want continue fighting, who would prefer not to see more innocent people slaughtered. He would need his interrogators to press him hard so he can feel that he has met his religious obligations – only then could he cooperate.

In other words, Cliff May, who says he's not "pro-torture," but "pro-facts," is telling us that in order to release a Muslim prisoner from his religious obligation to stay silent, we had to "press him... to the limit of [his] ability to endure the hardships inflicted."

Attention Cliff May: That is the very definition of torture. And this isn't "We had to do it and we're sorry." This isn't even "We had to do it and we're not sorry we did it." This is, "They wanted us to do it."

Cliff May disgusts me. All the torture apologizers disgust me now. I live in a country with sympathizers for a regime that is indistinguishable from Communist China or the Taliban in its disregard for basic human dignity.