I have written in the past that
torture is incompatible with republicanism
; and it has been known that torture produces incorrect results. Case in point, the capture Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The same captives were under detainment that uses torture, and then replaced by a new intelligence unit who used standard and non-coercive techniques.
The latter produced the intelligence which led to Zarqawi's death
.
So torture is morally repugnant, politically impossible under liberal democracy and republican governence, and it does not produce results. It fails morally, liberally and empirically. There is no possible positive argument for it other than the base satiation of personal sadism.
Torture is nothing more than tyranny and arbitrary violence from the executive.
