ticking bomb

When printing out the very long article about torture, i was interested as to how much one peroson could say about people and others being tortured. once i got to the part about the ticking bomb, i really had to just stop for a moment and think about America and how we deal with things today. i understood the reasoning about how it was nessasary to torture the person to get answers, but could there have been another way that would have been easier and more effective? i think that there really could have been.
I thought that there was a type of drug that could help make people tell the truth, if we had used something like that, then maybe we could have gotten the answers that we needed from him and would have been able to save the others, and not have had to hurt anyone. I guess what happened needed to happen, because i am sure that we are smart enough to come up with the best possible solution, and this must have been it.