A few comments…
1) Waterboarding works. Why bother to go further if it isn’t needed. We waterboard our own troops, and have been using that and other “torture” for decades in our training.
2)The pork ideas do not work. Naturally, Islamic clerics long ago determined that unclean practices inflicted by the enemy are not a problem. Otherwise, these tactics would be common. That being said, in areas of less education and more superstition, such as parts of Africa, religious taboos have been used. I once met a merc who coated all his bullets in pig fat.
3) Those who claim that “torture” doesn’t work are ignorant. As is taught to American troops who may experience torture (in my day, by former POWs), it does work. I suspect the “torture doesn’t work” mantra flows from a combination of ideology, the natural response of professional interrogators who aren’t allowed to use torture; Sort of like the psychologists who used to insist that psychiatric drugs didn’t work (and of course, those shrinks were not allowed to use them).
4) Your approach has more than a slight taint of vengeance and brutality in it. While our use of “torture” in critical situations does not “bring us down to the level of the enemy,” the gratuitous use of excessive torture, as you propose, is immoral and demeans us. If we *must* torture, we must; but as a civilized society we should limit it to the minimum effective amount, used only when necessary.
