Fast media transmission makes torture’s blowback immediate and global.

Evidence

This is certainly true of the short term, but in the longer term—as the Nazis in the Second World War, and as almost every other power that has ever adopted torture as an instrument of policy, have discovered—it is a double-edged weapon. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 609 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Communications speed changed how torture scandals inflame Muslim opinion; Torture succeeding in the short term proves a double-edged long-term weapon — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 609

Related

• Communications speed changed how torture scandals inflame Muslim opinion (similarity 0.92)
• Torture succeeding in the short term proves a double-edged long-term weapon (similarity 0.83)
• Torture is counterproductive even for intelligence gathering (similarity 0.81)
• Torture creates more terrorists than the bombs it uncovers (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Communications speed changed how torture scandals inflame Muslim opinion #expands (0.85)
• Torture succeeding in the short term proves a double-edged long-term weapon #complicates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 609