Because It NEEDS Repeating

• TORTURE IS MORALLY AND ETHICALLY WRONG.
• TORTURE DOESN'T "WORK."
• TORTURE IS NOT A CHRISTIAN VALUE.  (No, the Inquisition and witch hunts don't count for this.)

Yes, I am considering the source.  (Crooks & Liars.  Warning:  video clip.)  Pecunium, who is way more articulate about this than I am and has taught interrogation techniques, has a posting here in which he says:

One of the principle part of SERE school, where pilots and aircrew are trained in what it’s like to be tortured, is that everyone breaks. Everyone. Even when it’s known that the tortures are part of the drill, and one won’t be maimed, much less killed, they all break. So why do our politicians, and pundits, pretend that “bad guys” are different?

Because it sells. [...]

[...]

Fear sells. Torture advocates (you can’t call them apologists when they use the word, and say we need to do the deeds) are selling fear, and fear is like yeast, once you put it in the dough, it won’t stop so long as it is fed.

Mr. Trump might consider jokes about his hands grounds for torture. Really, you don't want that.

In slightly more encouraging news, Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 40 years.