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This topic was much written about last year re: the AQ and Taliban detainees. Most of the experts I read about agreed that torture wasn't particularly effective in obtaining RELIABLE information. Eventually most people will just tell their interrogators whatever they think they want to hear to make it stop. And then you have the hard cases who will die before they'll talk.

Evidently there are other, psychological methods to extract information that are both more humane and more effective. At least that seems to be the consensus of most of the intelligence types I've seen talking about it.

Everyone cracks under torture, at some point. The one way someone dies before they've talked is if the torturer is unskilled. A human being simply can't endure it.

Interesting, though (and this isn't directed specifically at you, KMS); some weeks ago, when it was reported that the United States was using torture against "terrorist combatants" or whatever, I was pretty much fighting a one man battle decrying such activity as inhumane and barbaric.

Where were most of ya'll then? Or do you only think that torture is bad when some other country uses it?