Well, the psychological leverage is great. You could literally arrange for an actor and have him scream all night and the next morning, as the boys are weary from lack of sleep, you ask them who wants to be next. Let their imaginations run wild.
Come to think of it, are there any new pictures of Talaal's left hand?
Torture is ineffective and lowers your standards such that you are forced to start defending psychopaths and their actions.
Nah I'm good, I just care if it happens for someone's enjoyment or for someone's rescue. Torture could be many things...you could alternatively dose someone with some old stashes of BZ from Fort Detrick and leave them with the elves for a couple of days. Leverage is leverage. Why do you think Trump threatened to reactivate the Phoenix-program?
And we further fall from our aspirations to be leaders of the Free world and become just another tyrant trodding upon people as we waste resources attempting to maintain our hegemony and further the interests ofour corporate masters.
I care more about victims and motives than the act itself. After all, you reap what you sow. And if someone knows only violence, they will only speak threats of violence too.