ZERO DARK SHITTY-Torture Did Not Stop Bin Laden, it Started Him.

From Wikipedia:
In her acceptance speech at the New York Film Critics Circle Bigelow stated the following: "I thankfully want to say that I'm standing in a room of people who understand that depiction is not endorsement, and if it was, no artist could ever portray inhumane practices; no author could ever write about them; and no film-maker could ever delve into the knotty subjects of our time."
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I gotta call bullshit! Here's why...
First-Director/producer Kathryn Bigelow sidesteps  the real question, by saying that her portrayal of torture doesn't condone it...That's soooo Neo-Con-Smooth. That's like saying 'I don't condone it, but it works'. So I know she's lying by omission there and I didn't even have to torture her! Or be tortured by the movie. Yay!

Second-Torture leads to a thousand lies for every grain of truth, it is not nearly as effective against an enemy as is the simple effort of befriending them (within captivity). The best strategy for drawing information from a revolutionary is to give him the life he is fighting for. Nothing breaks the heart like love and respect.

Third-We still haven't accepted the fact that there did exist a young Osama Bin Laden who was not a terrorist leader. Bin Laden and the leaders of Al Qaeda all achieved high levels of eduction in engineering and medicine, were well to do and raised families. They were not bent on suicide and destruction from their youth. But they were born in Saudi Arabia, where torture is still very legal to this day. And the US is and was a strong ally of the Saudi government to this day. We can't afford to be their enemy, they own the middle east.

But in his youth Bin Laden and future Al Qaeda leaders saw themselves as enemies against the Saudi Monarchy, primarily. Their hatred of America is primarily based on our support of the Saudi Monarchy and their torture tactics [Read 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright]. They grew up as well educated, well off reactionaries, but over time the future leaders of Al Qaeda witnessed one after another of their less wealthy com padres be taken away in the dark of night from their wives and children and sent to torture cells in Saudi Arabia and from there to Egypt where they were detained for years and then sent back home as trembling vegetables. They were totally healthy, but had been driven into a state of vegetative psychosis. These were the childhood friends of Al Qaeda. Saudi Arabia is a thoroughly locked down police state, so they never had a chance to revolt there. So, they revolted here.

Torture did not stop Bin Laden, it started him.