Commentary: Torture 22 Articles

by Karon Brandt

What is torture? Are terrorists entitled to protection from torture as POWs captured in wartime, under the guidelines set by the Geneva Convention in 1949? Does torture work? Let's define torture as something that affe...read more

by Colin Benjamin

America's Torture and the War on Terror So, "President" Bush has admitted what some of us have surmised all along: that senior Administration officials including: Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA D...read more

by John Overocker

The debate about the use of torture for the gathering of intelligence in order to protect American lives has raged for nearly as long as the War on Terror itself. What does it say about our National Character? Who are we i...read more

by A Gentleman's View

Thou shall not kill. The sixth commandment of ten, thou shall not kill. This statement is pretty clear; it states an action that should not be taken. It is one of the Ten Commandments, the known basic guide to hu...read more

by Nicholos Gene Poma B.S.

Many in political and media circles have decided to come up with a new name for torture. Now they call it, "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques." This is as ridiculous as when the police started using the term, "Person of I...read more

by T. M. Beeker

America always tries to take the moral high ground when it comes to its foreign policy. However, when the curtain is pulled very often the United States is not above practicing the same methods as those we view as rogue or...read more

by Jubal Buie

Torture is abhorrent in every civilized country. The treatment and welfare of war time prisoners has been covered in the Geneva Convention. All of the flack surrounding Abu Grahib and Guantanamo is laughable. That was...read more

by Barry Davidson

Recently I was reading the news, and came across yet another article about legislation proposing the banning of torture in questioning suspects of terrorism. Hundreds, if not thousands, of articles have appeared on this su...read more

by Chandler Cousins

In conjunction with the suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus and redefining the DCEICPVW or "The Geneva Convention", the executive branch has an unchecked and ungodly amount of authority and power to do as he pleases. ...read more

by Zachariah Langley

Torture is, has, and always will be one of those necessary evils you can't deny continues to this day. It's either some sick serial killer or government agency that employs these tactics of humiliation for self gratificat...read more

by Ted Sherman

The stories about General Pershing ordering Muslim prisoners to die in religious shame while wrapped in pigskins is ... for want of a better word ... hogwash. I doubt if the General ran into many Muslims in his Mexican exp...read more

by Julian Summer

When we talk about torture we should be careful not to personalize the issue. By this I mean, give vent to our own, at times visceral emotional response. As an ex serviceman I am keenly aware that we do not live in a Utopi...read more

by Mark Hopkins

Torture is an act I had always associated with the Gestapo or the Kempei Tei during the Second World War. The German and Japanese military or secret police stood for exactly what 'civilized' people abhorred. Their values w...read more

by Linda C. Turman

Living in crisis and will it ever end? We all know there are differences in all people and their opinions and actions for things that they do. We're not perfect, though there comes a limit to our actions.There are many var...read more

by Dan Weaver

The Unintended Consequences Of Torture 2007 has gone and with it, virtually unnoticed, the 400th birthday of Father Isaac Jogues. Canonized in 1930 as one of the North American Martyrs, I prefer to think of hi...read more

by Brad Hutchinson

Commentary: Torture Torture is a red herring. Torture as an issue in American political discourse has been manipulated and used by various persons and groups to help push their narrow agenda. Still, torture is torture...read more

by Louis DeVlugt

In today's "war on terror," the argument is often made by its supporters that torture is necessary to obtain the information required to fight the "enemy." What they either don't know, or count on others not knowing, is t...read more

by Luella Smith

Torture is a terrible thing to even think about. Terrorism is a terrible thing to think about. It happens though. Terrorism has invaded our country. I am in a conflict over this issue of torture. Of course I wouldn't want ...read more

by Robert Bowers

Somethings at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay can not be considered torture. Using Sleep Deprivation and barking dogs are not torture. Now things that can be considered torture is obviously physical abuse to the the person w...read more

by John Webb

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.", the words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky ring more true than ever. The use of torture is abhorrent, a threat to free people everywhere and must be s...read more