Read Joe Carter’s cry of the heart regarding conservative Christians and torture.
Carter is right.
You cannot do any good by committing acts known to be evil. While we do not live in a morally simple universe where lines are always easy to draw (What exactly is torture?), some acts are repugnant enough to demand a moral response.
Look up what happens in “water boarding.” Examine the psychological torment involved. Read the eloquent words on this “technique” by John McCain who has been tortured.
A Christian cannot justify wicked means by hoped for good ends.
I have always argued that torture is wrong. It violates the “image of God” in another human being. Like slavery, it debases two people and one culture: the tortured loses his soul liberty, the torturer claims to be a god, and the culture condones an ugly and wicked act.
It is better to lose the War, than to lose our souls.