knowing for a fact that someone has information which poses an immediate threat on lives of innocent people
This is one of the major sticking points: outside of fiction, TV and major motion pictures, you never know this for a fact.
Also, "torture doesn't work" is actually short for "torture doesn't produce reliable information." You'll get something out of the subject eventually, sure, but the likelihood that it will be both useful and factual is somewhere down near nil.
It occurs to me that the foe of that moment might indeed be following the US field manual, if back in the noughties it was a close ally that received military training and advice from the US.
... yes, that's my "stop the world and let me off" moment, right there. I can't think too hard about the future repercussions of this mess without threatening either my blood pressure or my lunch. Possibly both.
Caroline:
I would love to see it. Maybe they'll take up that gauntlet if TPTB at the network can be convinced it'll fly, ratings-wise.
Re: 24, I was just thinking the other day... wouldn't it be instructive to have next season go a little differently? Jack does his thing, gets the info, runs off to save the world and everything goes to hell because d'oh! The dude he tortured lied to save his skin.
It's happened a time or two to lesser degrees on Lost, but I think America needs something flashier in order to actually get the point.
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