Dialawar was an Afghan detainee who was beaten,sleep deprived and chained up for 5 unrelenting days until he died. However, it was later discovered that Dilawar had no connection to the rocket attack that he was apprehended for.( No torture,2008). Due to the C.I.A.’s misidentification of who Dilawar was mistaken for his last days were horrible and unjust. Unfortunately, the damage was already done. However, Dilawar was not the only victim of this “torture”. Another man who endured the brutal “enhanced interrogation” was Mohamed Ben Sound. Sound had repeatedly stated he had no affiliation or knowledge of terrorist activities. Today Mr. Sound, 47 is a free man. Although the effects of what he endured has had lasting effects.(Apuzzo, 2016) The
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Break the enemy, mentally, or physically, it doesn’t matter what happens to them because they’re the enemy. A famous retired Marine and now Senator John McCain was on a tour in Vietnam when he was captured and taken by the North Vietnamese for nearly 5 ½ years as a prisoner of war (John McCain, 2008). John McCain was one of the many prisoners of war at the time but his story is brutal like many others, to this day he still suffers the effects of what was done to him physically and mentally. John McCain was not a terrorist just a soldier who was doing his job, but that didn’t matter to the North Vietnamese. Repeatedly as McCain has been involved politics he has said that torture, “compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies" (The Economist, 2014). That quote speaks volumes, understanding that if torture is being accepted and practiced, how that does make you any better than the enemies and the same people called terrorist. That is exactly how they view the tortures’, the tortures’ become the terrorist, the enemy just depends on which side a person is on. There is no justification for the same thing you …show more content…
employees for trying to protect the United States, but also mentioned some of the interrogation tactics were in his mind, “Torture and betrayal of American values.” (Smith, 2015). One of Obama's campaign topic points was about his decision to eradicate and remove the detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Just a short week into Obama’s first days as President in 2009, he signed executive orders to shut down the C.I.A.’s secret overseas prisons and eradicating unsound interrogation methods (Smith, 2015). Unfortunately that was never the case, rather the detainees were transferred to other allied countries “care” who are understood to perform torture as well. The United States has been known to have turned suspected terrorist over to countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco who are willing to use “aggressive interrogation” in effort to help retrieve “vital” information (Levinson, Shue, Weisburg, HDissent, 2003). Obama made an appeal to congress to release detainees from Guantanamo the number changing from a staggering 100+ to less than 21. Thirty-five of those released were never actually convicted of any crimes committed (Lamothe, 2016). That number fluctuated so dramatically and with 35 released without charges, that leaves some reasonable questions unanswered. Why were these men held for so long without any justifiable cause, without evidence? How is the government sure those men were even involved in what they were being accused of? Where is the
Break the enemy, mentally, or physically, it doesn’t matter what happens to them because they’re the enemy. A famous retired Marine and now Senator John McCain was on a tour in Vietnam when he was captured and taken by the North Vietnamese for nearly 5 ½ years as a prisoner of war (John McCain, 2008). John McCain was one of the many prisoners of war at the time but his story is brutal like many others, to this day he still suffers the effects of what was done to him physically and mentally. John McCain was not a terrorist just a soldier who was doing his job, but that didn’t matter to the North Vietnamese. Repeatedly as McCain has been involved politics he has said that torture, “compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies" (The Economist, 2014). That quote speaks volumes, understanding that if torture is being accepted and practiced, how that does make you any better than the enemies and the same people called terrorist. That is exactly how they view the tortures’, the tortures’ become the terrorist, the enemy just depends on which side a person is on. There is no justification for the same thing you …show more content…
employees for trying to protect the United States, but also mentioned some of the interrogation tactics were in his mind, “Torture and betrayal of American values.” (Smith, 2015). One of Obama's campaign topic points was about his decision to eradicate and remove the detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Just a short week into Obama’s first days as President in 2009, he signed executive orders to shut down the C.I.A.’s secret overseas prisons and eradicating unsound interrogation methods (Smith, 2015). Unfortunately that was never the case, rather the detainees were transferred to other allied countries “care” who are understood to perform torture as well. The United States has been known to have turned suspected terrorist over to countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco who are willing to use “aggressive interrogation” in effort to help retrieve “vital” information (Levinson, Shue, Weisburg, HDissent, 2003). Obama made an appeal to congress to release detainees from Guantanamo the number changing from a staggering 100+ to less than 21. Thirty-five of those released were never actually convicted of any crimes committed (Lamothe, 2016). That number fluctuated so dramatically and with 35 released without charges, that leaves some reasonable questions unanswered. Why were these men held for so long without any justifiable cause, without evidence? How is the government sure those men were even involved in what they were being accused of? Where is the