The problem with this type of thinking is that it's focused on the small picture. If you want to "solve" terrorism, first of all, you stop all the bullying, co

The problem with this type of thinking is that it's focused on the small picture. If you want to "solve" terrorism, first of all, you stop all the bullying, controlling, exploitative, and to summarize trouble-making, foreign policies. In spite of what the USA agenda and propaganda dictates, terrorists attack for a logical reason (of course, this doesn't mean a reasonable one), not because they wake up one morning with the intention of bombing the population of a given country. To answer your question more directly though: torture and grey-legal area practices are ineffective because they are already put in practice. There's plenty of documentaries about this, and by the way, a short time ago has been posted a link to the Guantanamo prison practices here in HN.