Torture Caused U.S. Combat Deaths

Another way of looking at torture, from Nicholas Kristof's NYT column:

Alberto Mora, a former general counsel for the Navy, has
said that some flag-rank officers believe that Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo
constitute “the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in
Iraq,” because they galvanized jihadis. An Air Force major and interrogator of
prisoners who goes by the pseudonym Matthew Alexander told Harper’s
Magazine that “hundreds but more likely thousands of American lives” were
lost because of “the policy decision to introduce the torture and abuse of
prisoners.”