Surely you meant to write the opposite? As we've all been told, over and over again, at least since it became clear that President Bush was encouraging torture,

Surely you meant to write the opposite? As we've all been told, over and over again, at least since it became clear that President Bush was encouraging torture, is the old slogan "death is what you wish for when you are being tortured." Intuitive belief in that torture extract useful intelligence rather than that the prisoners will say anything in order to stop the torture. This is all for the quest of never ever letting another 9/11 attack happens.