Answer:
Firstly, according to the Geneva Conditions, the USA is not allowed to engage in torture of people who were captured or anything along those lines. If we were to discard that notion, however, the United States of America should not ever engage in the practice of torturing people. Moreover, torturing people is incredibly inhumane. The USA is supposed to be a symbol of freedom, and while torturing captured souls may get us information, the cost greatly rivals a few words from a tortured person's mouth. First, let's think about what relevance the words from a tortured person even have. I would assume that the reason for torture is because the person has some sort of valuable information and is from a foreign country (most likely one of the USA's enemies). Of course, being a highly trained operative, there should be no doubt that it will take hard work to crack them. On top of this, how can we even trust a person who has been tortured by us? Obviously, they would want to establish that, first off, their country will never cave to US demands, and secondly, they would most likely stand fast with their former ideology that the US is not a place of freedom. Hence, what if by torturing them, we are only provoking them to give us false answers so that we may know pain, too? What if instead of giving us the name of a small base, they give us the name of their headquarters and we go in hoping to stage a small attack and are met with an army of the enemy and dozens of valiant soldiers die? Another terrible consequence of torture is our reputation itself. The idea of torturing humans may make us seem extremely strong, and to some, it may seem like torture proves that the USA is a place where no one will ever challenge our superiority. But to outsiders? To the hundreds of thousands of millions of other people? The only thing it will prove is that the USA is a ruthless, cold, horrid place where people who step one foot out of the white-picket-fence are lashed back into place. Therefore, torture is no way to solve problems and the USA should never resort to engaging in it.
