After reading the two articles about Jack Baurer’s character played by Kiefer Sautherland, I was not able to get over that fact that America would stoop so low as to even use torture as a method of punishment. I still remember the day as clear as yesterday when President Bush had announced the use of extreme interrogation methods were going to take place in the prison location of Guantanamo Bay. At fist just like any American at the time I felt as though this was a method that would be used to send a message to those who had intentions of harming U.S. citizens. But if we were to use these types of methods on a more long term bases the consequences may turn right around and bite us in the rear. First of all the show of 24 is not a built on real life events that had already occurred and are replayed for viewing purposes. Second we have to remember the show is fiction, and two take examples of the use of torture from a temporary television drama would make the country of America look like absolute morons in the end. Second the use of torture is not a morally just way of handling prison from other countries. It has been said that the use of torture was used on prisoners of Guantanamo Bay even if they were not guilty of terrorist act themselves.
Shortly After President Obama had stepped into Presidency he announced that the use of torture was an unjust and unmoral way dealing with prisoners associated with terrorism. A comedy by the name of “Harold A Kumard: Escape from Guantanamo Bay”, poked fun at the torture techniques used to deal with detainee of terrorism, but I reality this is not laughing matter. Many prisoners have already been released from Guantanamo Bay and are currently back in Afghanistan, plotting more effective and devastating attacks on our country. Was it a mistake to let these potentially lethal men go back to the country were we currently struggle to enforce efforts of peace. It may be , but the bottom line is why did we even enforce this policy to begin with if we didn’t think about the long term effects of these actions in the first place. It may be true that some of these torture methods were used and in fact saved many lives by exposing a potential plot to blow up a mall located in Ohio near Columbus, and many other potentially threatening terrorist plans. But, the use of homeland intelligence and the CIA agencies across the U.S. is another option that has to be upgraded and more heavily present during this day and age, which may take a way a little privacy, but may protect our country from major devastation. We can not rely on fictional television that exposes extreme violence and immorality towards one or many people to save others, besides we need to start trying to clean our image and start setting good examples for other countries in the world by using brains over brutality.