[Just another Joe]

What makes you think that dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was torture?
That was an act of war.
Show me the country that we are at war with at this moment and I'll consider dropping a bomb.

There is a vast difference between torturing an individual, be it a soldier or a terrorist, for information and dropping a nuclear bomb to end a war.

[hobbes1]

That was an act of war.

Yes it was. And it produced massive suffering on a Civilian population.

That's the point. with a State actor, you can end the killing, by fighting a war.However, sometimes civilians suffer extremely (like radiation poisoning...) because of it.
And that is to save MILITARY LIVES.

Now take your garden variety terrorist Ahole. every moment he withholds information, another civilian target may be at risk.

How is it, then, that you can consider the collateral damage done to civilians during a war, fair game, but not the deliberate inflicting of pain, on someone actively targeting civilians in an Undeclared war?