Abu Ghraib

On a daily basis we are inundated with news headlines regarding the War on Terror. The government denies that they are using torture as a means to gain a foothold against these perpetrators whilst also denying that waterboarding is not torture. Both of these non-admissions have opened the doors for people in politics, law and abroad to speak their minds. The following three perspectives are a taste of the philosophical side of the argument. Should it be done or shouldn’t it? I will be comparing…

Case Summary & Background Patrick Marlowe, who is a former correctional officer of Wilson County in Lebanon, Tennessee, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges relating to violations of the civil rights of inmates at the Wilson County Jail. Mr. Marlowe was the supervisory corrections officer on the evening shift of the Wilson County Jail from 2001 to early 2003 (Burke, 2006). He and several former correctional officers were convicted at trial of conspiring to violate the rights of inmates…

He was accused after his fingerprints tied him to the Madrid bombing, but a few weeks later it was discovered that they had the wrong person. It is amazing how the justice system could have gotten the wrong individual with the greatest tool on their side. That comes to show that if science could get it wrong, human error through coercion is even greater. Additionally, torture undermines U.S diplomacy and it goes against our human rights: “In 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal…

World War II or the live broadcasting of public executions by ISIL are just two of many examples along history, where is it possible to argue that soldiers followed orders from higher levels. But the human rights violations to the war prisoners in Abu Ghraib was one case where the soldiers probably received formal education without internalizing the deep concept of mala in se and the lack of controls resulted in the use of unnecessary…

Religion may legitimize suicide Bombing on one level, however on another level the demonstration springs from the inspiration of the individual aircraft. Studies have demonstrated that numerous suicide planes, especially in created social orders, are not disturbed or wild-looked at aficionados with nothing to live for; surely, a noteworthy number of aircraft have originated from wage and training levels well over their nations' standards. Another expansive pattern, discernible in the various…

“The environment in which members of the military must operate poses a severe threat to consistent moral behavior.” (Hartle 1) The opening sentence of Anthony Hartle’s Moral Issues in Military Decision Making starts a conversation with the reader about a serious topic in today’s military. Hartle published the first edition of his book back in 1984 when the biggest threat to the United States was the Soviet Union. After their collapse the landscape of the world changed with the United States…

Children of Men referenced detainee abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, especially in the scenes of the Bexhill ‘welcoming centre’, where random detainees are stripped, beaten, arbitrarily humiliated, sexually harassed, and possibly executed, all in the manner of world-famous images of hooded detainees…

waterboarding as "morally repugnant;" nevertheless, President Bush still authorized the use of this contemptible practice approximately 183 times on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11th attacks, and 83 times on Abu Zubaydah, another prominent al-Qaeda operative. Staunchly unremorseful, Bush went so far as to state that he would "do it again to save lives" while speaking to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan (Associated Press). In 2010, the Prime…

image flow to the incidents of Abu Ghraib in which the United States government decided to “suppress the release of…photographs that depict the abuse, rape, and torture of Afghan and Iraqi prisoners in American custody” (Nelson, 305). To justify this decision to the American people, President Obama claims that the release “‘would…further inflame anti-American opinion and…put [American] troops in greater danger’” (Nelson, 305). Since the release of the images from Abu Ghraib further puts America…

Media, in the forms of photography, film, and writing are similar in that they often reveal a particular message, or comment on a societal aspect. For some, these messages may be underlying, while in others, they are evident and transparent. This idea helps distinguishes differences in media. Photography is widely open for interpretation. In the case of Errol Morris’ “Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up?” the lack of context and textual clues make it hard to discern what was true or what…