Mike Pouraryan
Water Boarding...Tortue..and Name Calling!!!
There has been a debate in the United States on Torture. Whenever the question has been asked of President Bush and his officials, the standard answer has been "we don't torture". Torture is against the law. The problem is the defitnion of torture. Furthermore, there is the issue of the various methods of interrogation. For instance, there is a profound debate about water boarding. Water boarding is defined, simply, as simulating being drowned. Apparently, a number of Al Qaeda operatives have been subjected to it. Some members of Congress seem to believe this to be "Severe Interrogation". When Trent Franks, The U.S. Congress member from Arizona mentioned this term, I nearly fell off my chair. The question that U.S. policy makers needs to reconcile is this: Is this justified? Is this right in the name of national security? What will this do to the moral argument that the United States has?
