In my opinion; I don't really care who is being tortured. It's just wrong.
Just because you torture someone doesn't mean you're going to get any information. Since you're talking about the prisoners in the middle east; it's even harder to get information. The people there are either innocent, or extremists. In both cases, you're not going to get a lot of information. There is also a possibility that the person in custody really doesn't know anything. If they say that they don't know, you're just going to assume that they are lying and hurt them even more. What's the point of that? What if they don't know anything? Are you really going to risk ripping someone's soul apart based on your whims?
If the person being tortured is an extremist, then you'll know that they aren't likely to give you any information. They are willing to die for their beliefs. In any case, if someone tortures them to a certain limit; they might give up some information. But the problem with that is that you're not going to be certain that the information you have just received is correct. When someone is put under extreme pain, they will give out information just to stop the pain. But how can you be sure the information given is correct? And when it's not correct, what are you going to do? Torture the person some more?
Torturing someone is a sick, twisted thing to do. To me, it's morally wrong and shouldn't be done on any living creature.
The worst thing is; US forces can take you away and start torturing you for no reason. They don't need evidence that you did something.
