US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners

"Getting something useful out of that is pure luck, because you're not making someone want to work with you by doing that. And you're not making them become more reasonable and rational in that process."

In that process, you're not trying to make them more reasonable or rational or trusting, you're trying to use their fear as a mechanism to get them to divulge information because things will only get worse if they don't, given that their information is readily verifiable. Fear is a HUGELY effective motivator.

"They'll be an instant abuse victim, they'll need treatment to get past what the torturer did to them."

Perhaps, but if the kidnapped person / people in the area where the bomb was set has their lives saved, then maybe it's OK that the kidnapper / bomber needs a few therapy sessions, since everybody is still alive, rather than having a live and untortured bomber and dead victim(s).

You're not really providing any evidence or techniques for techniques that work rapidly, just the hope that methods that work well in an unlimited timeframe work equally well in a limited time, which I'm not sure there's evidence for.

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