Torture: Does it work?

Another minor thing for the apologists to consider, has any of the special attention given detainees in Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, anywhere actually produced results? Or is the whole "get tough" mantra primarily a psychological process to purge the nagging fear that America is "soft?"

Special bonus section for the Wall Street Journal op-ed page: Compare and contrast water-boarding and high marginal income tax rates as government policies which fail to produce the intended results.