What would happen if we didn't torture people ?
Would Japan not sell us the ps3 ?
Would kenko coffee workers go on strike ?
I think your mixing up two different arguments here.
The point is that yes wars were started for resources we needed and yes in some convoluted way those resources end up in products, but more likely those resources fuel the trucks that bring the supermarkets food.
Im not saying its right or wrong but it just is this way , we also mine for oil in our own regions, but talk about the falklands ? what was that war really about for example.
these people hate us because probably a lot of them think our 'western ways' are wrong, not just the wars but on a day to day level they disprove of quite a lot of the liberal values we hold. But they are still people and dialogue should probably always come before war.
its not just about getting the latest console vs peace, its two things:
1. our entire societies industrial blood supply is historically based on fossil fuels
2. our modern secular liberal values don’t fit into a very old ( what the west see's as ) repressive way of thinking.
but back on topic ...
does torture work ? the answer is its "less effective"