Torture Bad. Kindness Works.

In the "debate" about torture, which it shames me to think we're having at all, one fact needs to be elevated - even above the moral objections.

Torture doesn't work. The best way to interrogate our enemies is with kindness. When politicians wail "do you think our enemies will talk to us if we just give them a hug?" the answer is yes. Yes they will.
It's not just a hug. It's a long, slow process of conversation and understanding, and persuading them that we respect them and honor things that are important to them. And in a century of warmaking, it's worked.

And I've had enough of putting what seems "tough" ahead of what actually works.