You've missed the point of who "them" actually is. Who is "trying to take advantage" ? The Iraqi's that had nothing to do with 911 ? The Saudi, US and Israeli backed moderate headchoppers in Syria ? Who exactly are the bad guys ?

Torture is also an extremely ineffective method of extracting information from a prisoner, (and that's making the assumption that the prisoner even knows any worthwhile information) with victims confessing to anything just to make the pain stop.