This is certainly true of the short term, but in the longer term—as the Nazis in the Second World War, and as almost every other power that has ever adopted torture as an instrument of policy, have discovered—it is a double-edged weapon.

XREF: Connects to historical debates about interrogation ethics and the effectiveness of coercive methods versus intelligence-gathering approaches.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 609