The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan Torture doesn’t work. In fact, in a counterinsurgency it works against you because it turns the locals against you. That is why the Marines took that guy back to his house. Because they knew we were trying to win that neighborhood’s trust, and torturing one of their own was not the way to do it, even if he was working with the Muj.

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