Your acceptance was relevant because it clashed with your remark that noone would mkadmit they approved of torture.

True, war is brutal and ruthless. But abandoning the belief that there are things which constitute war crimes would be a dangerous backward step. Torture in these circumstances is a war crime. Those who practice it, and those in authority who authorise or condone it, are war criminals. In fact those who even justify it are in a real cense accessories to war crimes, either before or after the fact.

"ANYTHING to gain military intelligence..." Which would presumably include such methods (which have been used) as raping or killing a captive's wife or children in front of them.