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As newspapers and documentary films continue to discuss waterboarding and other controversial treatments of suspected terrorists, the debate over torture remains intense. Some insist that desperate times call for desperate measures, but others are baffled that such methods could exist in a civilized society. Is physical persuasion ever an appropriate means of interrogation?
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A Grave Threat
Bomb Threats Equal Torture
It seems like torture is acceptable as long as the situation calls for 'enhanced interrogation techniques', for example if a country is about to use nuclear bombs. Yet this is clearly a faulty statement because even after Saddam Hussein was removed from power abuses went on at the Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib. The loose guidelines of when to use torture clearly contribute to its misuse as does the lack of judgment of those in power.
- annalise
March 1, 2009 4:48PM
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