So let's have more torture! Because chaos is the plan:

“The fact that we have television programs now in which torture is glorified and taken for granted is alarming not only to citizens who care but even to West Point and the military,” insisted [the Reverend George] Hunsinger. According to the reverend, the organization Human Rights First is bringing the producer of the Fox television show 24 to West Point to discuss how its depiction of torture is giving young recruits wrong ideas. “Experts in interrogation agree these tactics don’t work and are in fact counterproductive. The organization Al Qaeda actually began in the torture chambers of Egypt, as you can read in the opening pages of The Looming Tower, which is a history of Al Qaeda.”

So, everything is going according to plan!

Nice to read a Christian who isn't a Christianist. More:

[Hunsinger is a] Presbyterian minister and chair of systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. [He] speaks compellingly about torture’s effects on the human psyche and national soul. He believes that allowing torture as policy desensitizes people to the suffering of others.

Of course, it's understandable why authoritarians would be pro-torture. Not only does the abuse excite them, they make a lot of money of it.

“The people in power today are trying to break a part of our ethical backbone and make us insensitive to these terrible human rights abuses that are taking place.” he said.

Bingo.

It's a simple case of uthoritarian autocoprophagia:

The more chaos and pain we create, the more weapons and killing we need to prevent the chaos and pain we create, and the more weapons and killing we need...

I'd say it's a win-win situation!