Which outlaw nation is our greatest enemy?

Plenty of Americans, forced to look at the issue of "enhanced interrogation" (what a phrase!) and specifically at waterboarding, are asking what in god's name have we become that we're even discussing whether an ancient and horrible form of torture is acceptable to a modern, democratic nation. 

Even if we are willing to set aside our humanity and morality for long enough to consider waterboarding, we are forced to face the fact that, as we have been told by the experts, that and other outlawed forms of interrogation do not elicit the truth but rather a false confession which can be used as propaganda.  As one experienced analyst of interrogation techniques explains:

Those were techniques --waterboarding, stress positions, sensory deprivation and sleep deprivation -- that have been used by our enemies against us.  They were used by enemies like the Soviet Union to force compliance and produce propaganda.  They didn't care whether it was good information or bad information.  They used it as propaganda.  It was never designed to achieve the truth.

Those who support the use of waterboarding tell us that it's necessary when we're threatened as we are now.  What they don't see -- obviously -- is that the threat we face from trumped up, stateless "islamofascists" is nothing compared to the very real threat our democracy faces from an uncontrolled outlaw state which the rest of the world fears.  And that nation, folks, is the US of A.  In no other developed country is there such a large group of people so willing to allow its leaders to get away with clearly unacceptable aggression and cruelty.