We gave it away a long time ago, Pitts.  It does nothing for your cause to argue it so disingenuously.

Terrorism, contrary to popular belief, didn't start on Sept. 11, 2001, nor did U.S. torture policies, which have been more or less with us since the beginning; from frontier "justice," through our various wars, and finally packaged and exported through the School of the Americas(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation), to name one modern example.

What about the other 9/11, and CIA complicity in the Allende coup?  Black ops go back a long way, from regime change in Iran in the 50's to the dirty wars in Central and South America in the 70's and 80's, and elsewhere.  

You want to make a real case against torture, and terror?  Draw some real lines between cause and effect:  The world that U.S. policies of destabilization, terror, and military force have created, and the mess our children will be left to deal with.