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It would be ridiculous to think that the United States has not done any acts of torture within the past few years for a variety of reasons. However, whether the torturing would be considered wrong would be another question. If there was a person that had information about a city in the United States that was going to be bombed or come under attack by some threat, and the person would not give the information to the U.S, I think it would be reasonable to get him to talk at any means necessary. Whether that means to torture him to get him to speak would in my opinion be okay, because it would be for the protection of U.S citizens and if it was not done lots of people would die.
However, I also think that there are means of torture that are wrong and should never be committed. If there was a prisoner of war that would not disclose information about where the enemy troops are, then I think that torture would be wrong in this case. In times of war it should not be expected that he give up the information and the United States soldiers know that their lives are at risk being in war and it is their job to fight. So any person that is in the army I would not consider to be completely innocent, unaware citizens unlike in the case of the citizens in the cities. It is a very controversial topic and I only think that torture should be allowed as a absolute last resort to get vital information.