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Really, this scenario is meaningless, because it has nothing to do with the situation at hand, i.e. policy regarding captured prisoners in a war setting. Torture is known to be ineffective, and actually, in a ticking time-bomb scenario, is amazingly ineffective, because the guy knows he only has to hold out for so long, and that he could lie to you to fill that time in. Over longer periods, it might work, but even then, if they hold out a while, you end up with old information, particularly if they tell you half-truths. It's just a bad policy that accomplishes little, and goes to show how insipid our "war" is; if we have to resort to torture to make it work, we are either incompetent or the war is not winnable.
By BWM

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