Waterboarding

Although this tactic dates back to the Spanish Inquisition, the form of waterboarding most widely used today involves choking the victim by filling his or her throat with a steady stream of water so as to simulate the experience of drowning. The use of waterboarding, known variously as "water torture," the "water cure", or “tormenta de toca,” was first documented in the 14th century, according to Ed Peters, a historian…

Military Torture Our military and government should be allowed to interrogate and torture anyone at anytime if it could save American lives. Any technique of torture such as waterboarding should be legal. If our military was given permission to do whatever it takes to get a terriost to talk we could save many lives and possible stop future attacks and maybe end a war. I believe enabling our military to torture terrorists in any would be beneficial to our country. A pro of military torture…

family almost having their baby drown. It’s from this experience that I have developed a fear of drowning, although to this day I have learned how to swim. Incorporating this into what may be my own personal hell, I look to the torture method of waterboarding as the most accurate simulation of…

“He was put into isolation for 47 days when the interrogation team traveled, and during his next interrogation, the team used enhanced techniques, including waterboarding.”Jeremy Ashkenas, Fairfield, Keller, Volpe. The CIA hides information from the government and they hide their tactics about torturing. They justify themselves and they make sure that the public does not know about any of it. The novel 1984 talks about the Ministry of Love and how they torture and isolate the people. They…

However, the early Romans had some human dignity under Julius Caesar and only tortured the people who he defeated in battle to try and put fear into the eyes of fellow enemies that might try and face him and his empire (“The Rise of Torture” 2). Torture has a way of putting fear into the minds of people that nothing else can. No one wants to be pushed to their limits in pain. There are multiple reasons that torture was the choice of action against people. The Romans grew very thirsty when it…

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…

heavily criticized because there is the possibility of training people to resist it. Supposedly, this is why we can't know what the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" are. If Washington admits that it uses waterboarding on suspected terrorists, al-Qaeda will set up "waterboarding-resistance camps" across the…

The media plays a major role in our society today. It makes us look at the world in another perspective based on how they want us to see it. The media has a way of choosing what stories to report and what stories to leave out. After 9/11 the myth of invincibility is destroyed and causes America to become weak and insecure. To rebuild this image, the media starts to portray America as the strong nation it once was and that nothing like that will ever happen to them ever again. Raymond Bonner,…

So what could Americans or their government say if torture were to be used against our own military? What would be the rationale for why it’s wrong? The excuse of the ticking time bomb may not work for those countries or groups that would seek to use torture against us, but there will always be another equally plausible excuse for torture, even if that excuse is simply the need for information that might save their people. And therein lies the difficulty of using torture against others, even…

that he has to stay and fight for his loved ones, for himself and his country. If Marcus would have run away, the DHS would still be capturing innocent people. Marcus fought for his country and almost died saving it when the DHS tortured him by waterboarding. Therefore, this quote is…