Enemy combatant

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There is a great amount of injustices are happening all around us as we speak and we are aware of maybe half of them. For example, In America you have to have been charged with a crime to be in prison. Tariq Ba Odah has been imprisoned since 2002 without charge. Many changes have occurred since his arrest, police injustice towards him, and attempts to close Guantanamo. Tariq Ba Odah may die in Guantanamo if he soon isn’t released. He has been on a hunger strike for eight years now and is in a…

Caring for the Enemy: An Ethical Struggle Every day, nurses are presented with complex ethical decisions that influence their daily practice. One notable ethical challenge specific to military nursing is caring for the enemy combatant. This ethical challenge is just as relevant to nurse anesthesia as it is to bedside intensive care nursing. The purpose of this essay is to explain how caring for the enemy poses an ethical challenge and health risk, introduce the concept of…

of jus in bello rely on a distinction between combatants and non-combatants. Stephen Coleman has questioned whether this distinction is relevant to conflicts in the twenty-first century. Write a paper in which you: a. Explain the distinction and the justification for it. b. Describe the features of contemporary wars that make the distinction harder to describe or harder to apply d. Explain whether you think the distinction should be accepted as traditionally defined, accepted but…

Distinction means that combatants must distinguish between combatants and civilians. Any use of lethal force must be primarily directed against combatants. Civilians casualties must be minimized through careful and pragmatic planning. In the movie, Colonel Childers clearly violates this principle. When he orders his men to “waste those motherfuckers”, he is grouping the enemy combatants and the civilians together as a single group of targets. His subordinates…

because it gave order to a chaotic activity. Among these rules were laws that combatants would need to abide by in order to maintain the ability to fight a just war. But, like everything, there are those who refuse to follow rules. Terrorists are not only a threat to a nation, but to all the citizens that occupy it as well. In recent…

War and Combatants When two different parties have opposite opinions, there is always a confliction somewhere. In the case of American Sniper, there is a scene where the sniper is in position and looking out for his troops that are passing through town. The sniper is up on top of a building and he sees two civilians in his sights. One female civilian who appears to be a young adult and one male civilian who appears to be young about ten years old. The two are seen walking out of a building and…

be able to indefinitely hold a U.S. citizen accused of being an "illegal enemy combatant" and deny them their due process rights? The Situation (Adam) State the facts of the case. What happened? - An American citizen named Yaser Hamdi was born in Louisiana and went to work in Afghanistan in 2001. While in Afghanistan he was detained by American soldiers for suspected of working with the Taliban and being an "enemy combatant". He was then sent to a military prison in Virginia. How did the…

720511058 Michael Walzer’s Moral Principle of Equality Traditional Just War Theory (JWT) contains at its core a principle Walzer calls the moral equality of combatants. According to this principle, combatants on various sides of a war possess the same right to kill, regardless of the justice of the cause for which they are fighting. Walzer’s argument is roughly that a modern day solider, whether for a just case or not, does not freely choose to fight. One is conscripted into service, or…