Your comparing torturing war captives to religious persecution? We aren't talking about cruel and unusual punishment in it's traditional sense.

Torture has never gotten results? How exactly do you know that?

We aren't talking about them torturing citizens to find out where a grow op is. The people being interrogated were war prisoners, enemies of the state, not American citizens. If they ever began torturing American citizens I would speak up and fight against that, but that isn't what were talking about here.

Not to mention, why should we treat our enemies better than they treat us. Do you not remember the beheading videos of American's in the Middle East? Do you think our enemies give a shit about how they get information from their captives?