This is not about HELPING the country. This is in a terrorist situation, if there's not enough time to spend on traditional interrogation when there's intel about a pending attack, and lives are on the line, innocent lives, THAT'S what you use these methods for, not to just "help" a country. The United States is not going around the world killing innocent people, blowing up women an children in public places because we hate a society or to make a political point. There's a HUGE difference.