After reading the article about the Abu Ghraib and watching the video in class made me think "what are the real terrorists". In my opinion I will define the term terrorist as "someone who does violent things to the others to get what they want and not respect their human rights". I have read other articles in my other classes about the ways that American soldiers torture prisoners in the Iraq or Afghanistan. Neither I support what the soldiers do; neither I disagree with the terror that they use to get what they want from the prisoners. In my opinion, if there is war included, everything is expected to happen to win the war. Both the parties in the war will lose people, resources etc. I am against of starting a war between countries and avoiding the start of a war. But when the war is started, everything is acceptable to win the war. I am against of torturing other people and watching the videos of the Abu Ghraid put me in shock how those people are being treated. But the American soldiers have to do whatever it takes to get the information that they need from the prisoners to protect their country. American soldiers are there in a mission to win the war and protect America, protect us and make sure that there wont be another 9/11.
War and terror
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I think you're right on defining terrorism. But at the same time I think terrorism has a whole level above just that one definition. In reading the Abu Ghraib article, at least I started to wonder, if these soldiers themselves were being brain washed to do these things. Although I do not want to make excuses for their horrific behavior. But they were forced by their officials, who were forced by their officials, to get information out of these prisoners at all costs. It didn't matter what they were to do in order to get the information they needed. Even in the video clip we watched in class we saw that eventually the soldiers went from simply dancing on camera to throwing things and beating each other, and things up as if they were simulating some sort of punishment upon them. Being in this prison and acting in this horrific way may have been a terrorist act upon our own soldiers.