Is waterboarding acceptable in order to extract information from terrorists?

In a International Relations module at a prestigious university, a professor asked a hypothetical question to the class: "If a terrorist had planted a nuclear weapon in London, and you caught them, what would you do in order to find out where it was?" Hard Truths has always considered this morality play trite, because of the circumstance involved. One student's answer, to the horror of the left-wing students surrounding them, was "whatever it takes to get the information".

Hard Truths has little sympathy for a man who successfully planned the murder of 3000 civilians, was subsequently captured, and then waterboarded, in order to extract information that led to the aversion of the infamous "liquid bomb plot". It is incomprehensible that the BBC can condemn the CIA for waterboarding the terrorist, when hundreds of British lives hung in the balance. The BBC makes a mockery of rationality by suggesting that any rational person would have done other than what the CIA did. The interrogators should be proud to have served the West so well, and so faithfully. The BBC, and other left -wingers, should take a moment to consider what is more important to them, the moral high ground or their own survival...