Assertion: torture | /r/ObjectUse | used in algeria
Facets:
value: inevitably
type: DEGREE
value: as in iraq
type: LOCATION
value: more broadly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The general justified torture, as so many do, on the "ticking bomb" theory, as a means to protect lives immediately at risk; but in Algeria, as now in Iraq, torture, once sanctioned, is inevitably used much more broadly; and finally it becomes impossible to weigh what the practice gains militarily in "actionable intelligence" against what it loses politically, in an increasingly estranged population and an outraged world.