I know I must seem dense to not be getting this, but you seem willing to put up with my stupid questions, so:

(I still don't get it.)

Even if you can take every Al-Qaeda member you catch to Gitmo and indoctrinate them, every one of them through torture, what is the strategic value of this?

(Ignore for a moment the value lost to America's moral standing, just think for a moment of the extraordinary use of intelligent and creative men required to break these prisoners.)