Newsweek (Week 16)

The title is of this Newsweek article is "Have We Softened Up on Torture?" This article is about American troops in Abu Ghraib Prison who made the prisoners do immoral things. The article points out that most of the prisoners were nude and forced to simulate sex acts. Former President George W. Bush offered and apology and said "the offenders would be brought to justice because the victims are human beings. When President Obama took office he released memos showing that the prisoners could be thrown into walls, waterboarded, shackled to the ceiling for hours, deprived of sleep for up to 11 days, and locked on coffinlike boxes. A year later all the torture acts the troops used in Abu Ghraib Prison were legalized.



Personally, I think that torture is wrong. When you torture somebody your torturing another human being. When torture includes stripping somebody nude and then using another torture act against them is something that should get the torturers locked up for life. Torture in general is something that should be forbidden throughout the world. The tortures think is fun or funny when it happens to someone else, but I would like to see what they think if it happens to them. I want to know if they think it is fun or funny.