U. S. executed Japanese for waterboarding. Where does this leave us?

The following is from the St. Petersburg Times, Politifact - a truth checking service that was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize:

“If the United States is in another conflict … and we have allowed that kind of torture to be inflicted upon people we hold captive, then there is nothing to prevent that enemy from also torturing American prisoners.”

McCain is referencing the Tokyo Trials, officially known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation

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