What is Torture?

Well, according to Chuck Sykes, it’s not waterboarding. Here’s Chuck’s take on torture (emphasis mine):

NOTE: I don’t believe I said that waterboarding wasn’t torture… personally, I don’t care what you call it: if it works I’m for it. On Insight, I was contrasting the brutal, savage torture of our enemies with our over-heated chest-thumping about waterboarding… which doesn’t kill anyone.

Now it’s obvious Chuck Sykes isn’t a supporter of the Geneva conventions regarding torture, which clearly define waterboarding as a form of torture, but I can’t help but wonder something:

Would Chuck Sykes and all the folks on the right who support waterboarding as a non-torture interrogation technique support its use on U.S. military forces?

I’d venture to guess Chuck Sykes and his compatriots on the right wing would gnash their teeth at the very mention of waterboarding being used against American troops, which leaves me to wonder why our government shouldn’t be held to the same standards as any other foreign power when it comes to proper interrogation techniques.