Torture...

After reading the document “To Torture or Not to Torture” it made me think and question what can really be considered to be “good” and “bad” torture. In our society today in the United States I think that Barrack Obama and the United States Government have tried to persuade people to think that torture can only be looked as being a bad thing. In my own opinion I think that torture can and should be justified for the reason of protecting our country from harm of terrorist our other nations. One of the main arguments that I support in the reading is the one clearly made about the discovery of Osama Bin Laden. If it were not for torture of “Ammar” than it is quite possible that Osama Bin Laden could still be at large today. By the right torture and needed assistance the proper intelligence was finally uncovered about the location. I would argue that it is justifiable to torture one person in order to save the lives of millions of people someplace else. I will also raise the point that although torture is said to be “illegal” and the United States does not torture we as citizens rarely even know what truly goes on inside of the CIA due to how secretive it is. In the event of this happening I think it should be up the military commanders of what should happen and let them have the final say. On the other hand if the torture is voted down then the risk of our country being defeated and millions of lives at risk is surely at jeopardy.