Does McCain acurately present the military's view on torture?

McCain has a lot more personal experience with torture than I do (by the grace of God go I!) so I will take his word for it on this subject. I think the terrorist vs. regular soldier argument is a bit of a fudge in a lot of cases. Given that the Minutemen had no uniforms, did that give the Redcoats the right to torture them? I'm not comparing Minuteman to Taliban, I'm just saying that the idea you can treat a combatant any way you like just because he doesn't have a uniform is utterly stupid.