Torture or Not

In the past couple of years, the United States has taken part in the act of torture in order to extract information from prisoners captured in its current expedition into the Middle East to fight terrorism. While torture is a quick means to getting information, that information can not always be trusted because initially torture puts a person in a position that they will give up whatever information that they think that the torturer wants to hear even if it is false. The only plus side to torture is that the person is still alive so they can always be interrogated again. The key to the torturing situation is what kind of torture is taking place. Physical torture can often produce the quickest answers because of the physical pain, however these methods often lead to misinformation. Mental torture takes a much longer time but once a person is broken mentally and has no hope left, they are more likely to produce information that in correct. There is always a danger from getting information from an enemy, sometimes false information can be better than no information. It all depends on what is done with the information. While I do believe torture is wrong, it is still going to take place. People cannot keep away from torture because it is an easy way to get information and to pretend to make progress in a war. Therefore, while I believe that the United States has committed much wrongful torture in the past I accept the fact that there is nothing that I can personally do about it.