really, you doubt that he would say what he knows in guantanamo? hes a college aged mercenary with no strong ideals about the war. Put a little pressure on him and he'll spill his guts out. you think he would talk when hes being fucking tortured? he probably already has told everything to the Indian govt just to try to help his sentence. if he really had anything that was that important that the US would want to know, and he refused to tell us, yeah i think we could get it out of him.

not especially proud of guantanamo, but i think it gets portrayed by the media as being less useful than it really is. Everything you see on the news says that its never led to any valuable information, the confessions can't be trusted because theyre under duress, and that its completely unnecessary for the war. If it really had no positive effect do you really think Obama would have kept it open in the face of so much political pressure? Obama didn't close it because he talked to his military advisers and they told him that we need that base to be open, and we need to torture these people to fight this war. Im sure there is a ton of information that they have gotten out of there that has not been released to the public. Every branch of the military has to constantly reapply for the money they receive, and if the money at guantanamo was a waste they would close it. Clearly it is necessary for the war on terror or it wouldn't exist.

So the real question is if it is useful, is it ok to torture these people? My answer is yes. This guy killed 55 people working for isis, im not super worried about his human rights. were fighting a war - this shit is not going to be pretty. Estimates for the death tolls of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are upwards of 174,000. I don't think torture is the biggest problem with these wars and it doesn't really bother me if it gets results.