Torture

The US must obey the Geneva convention and not torture people in detention.  They are people too, and must be treated as such, no matter how different or evil they might be.

Many foreign combatants under our control are simply young men who had no future, so they turned to terrorism.  Now, this decision may be frowned upon, but we must look at the root cause of the influx of these fighters if we are to succeed and make the world safer.

The root cause may be the instability of regions in which these fighters come from.  If they have no future, no education, and they perceive their well being is in danger by foreign military forces, then they will fight, and fight with terrorism.

Torture, in fact, might not be as effective as it seems.  While valuable information has been attained through "enhanced interrogation techniques", when people are under stress, they may not tell the truth.  If someone is threatening you, you may be more likely to say whatever will get you get relieved of that stress, instead of what might be the truth.  It is the same with combatants.  They could say what interrogators want to hear, instead of what they need to hear.  Treating everyone like humans will gain their respect, showing that we are not in fact evil.  Once they realize that, they can be of much more help than ever before.