Imagine waking up in the morning, going downstairs and preparing your morning meal. As you enjoy the sunshine through the kitchen window with a chai tea latte, the news on the television suddenly changes from mundane to chaotic confusion. Disaster has struck! The unbelievable just happened and the nation is in chaos. This disaster could happen anytime and anywhere in the world. If the only method of preventing this traumatic event was through the clever information extraction technique known as torture, wouldn't it be the government's obligation to the people to ensure that this method of prevention is exercised? When considering the threat from extremists, the U.S. government must allow the use of unorthodox interrogation methods, such as torture, when lives are at stake and time is of the essence. A very popular argument against torture methods in the United States deals with the assumption that terrorists, or any form of enemy combatant who would carry out terrorist-style attacks, would look at the way we as a nation use torture techniques and attempt to cite it against of us claiming that Americans are hypocrites against their own moral standards. They use this technique to then aid and assist them in recruiting new soldiers or terrorists for their cause against America. This recruiting tool theory has become something of a mantra in our recent history, even from the President himself. He also, as he typically does, excuses the violent actions of extremists or terrorists and blames America for the harm others have done. Terrorists don't need America's perceived use of torture to hate America. As Richard Cheney states in a speech given in July 2009: “As a Practical…… middle of paper……versity of New York Press, 2007. Print.Brecher, B. Torture and the Ticking Bomb. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. Print.Cheney, Richard. “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Protecting This Country.” Vital speeches of the day. July 2009: 297-302. Print.Dershowitz, Allen. Why terrorism works: understanding the threat, responding to the challenge. RR Donnelley & Sons Co., Inc.: USA, 2002. Print.Holy Bible. New King James Version. Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 1982. Print.Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-webster.com. nd Web.Posner, Richard. "The best attack." Newrepublic.com. The New Republic. Network. September 2002. Reuter, Dean and John Yoo. Confronting Terrorism: September 11th and the Future of America's National Security. New York: Encounter Books, 2011. Print.Wisnewski, Jeremy. Understanding torture. Cheshire: Edingburgh University Press, 2010. Print.