Should The Government Use Torture Against Our Own Military?

So what could Americans or their government say if torture were to be used against our own military? What would be the rationale for why it’s wrong? The excuse of the ticking time bomb may not work for those countries or groups that would seek to use torture against us, but there will always be another equally plausible excuse for torture, even if that excuse is simply the need for information that might save their people. And therein lies the difficulty of using torture against others, even with a seemingly plausible excuse. Of course, it is not as if the U.S. is the only country that uses or has used torture in the past. It’s not. In 2014, Amnesty reported that 141 countries were still believed to have been using torture and that “the findings point to what Michael Bochenek, Amnesty’s senior director for International Law and Policy, called a “disconnect” between policy and practice and between public condemnation of torture and the pervading misconception that “this is the way it has to be” for states to be kept secure”(Pizzi). …show more content…
Of course, the U.S. can’t be blamed for all of the torture occurring around the world, but “Manfred Nowak, the former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, told Al Jazeera that the U.S. — once viewed as a vanguard in the fight for human rights worldwide — has opened the door for other countries to engage in torture under the auspices of fighting terrorism”(Pizzi). Nowak said the U.S. has relied on their ticking time bomb as an excuse to torture suspected terrorists