The Pros And Cons Of Torture

“Majid Khan's ‘lunch tray,’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins was ‘pureed’ and rectally infused,” (Senate Intelligence Committee). This is but one of the atrocities performed upon the prisoners of the CIA at one of numerous black site prisons. In discussion of modern American foreign policy, one controversial issue has been torture. On the one hand, some people argue that torture is a necessary practice that proactively saves American lives. On the other hand, other people contend that that torture is an atrocity and a violation of human rights that shouldn’t happen. On the deformed and severely defected third hand, other maintain that, despite not being effective, torture should be a common practice as punishment for …show more content…
More broadly, what exactly did the CIA do to their prisoners? Well, they water boarded people, deprived people of sleep, forced prisoners to wear diapers, locked prisoners in coffin like boxes, slammed them against walls, and even performed forced rectal-rehydration on some prisoners. For the innocent among us, rectal-rehydration involves feeding someone via door number two (the anus) by inserting a feeding tube and sending in food. Usually it’s done to patients in extreme condition, but the CIA had some rather creative ideas about this one. There were also little activities done exclusively at some black sites. That detention site from earlier, Cobalt, had this little game they played called “intense takedown” (not a joke) where a prisoner would be stripped, dragged down a hall, and beaten whilst being dragged (Senate Intelligence Committee). Such heinous actions are a clear violation of human rights, and need to be addressed before it’s too late. The brutality of the CIA’s torture program is something that will be a blemish on America’s conscious. Not to mention, the brutality of such torture methods might have some unforeseen