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CRITIQUE OF: THE CASE FOR TORTURE The author’s whole argument is flawed with extremely weak and wrongly concluded assumptions. The author merely states that the gadgets found from Khalid were a “treasure trove” Relating it for example with a statement made by any investigating official which might have validated the author’s statement. The author gives false analogies by comparing Khalid, whose guilt is yet to be proven, with a surely guilty person, threatening fifty hostages. A person stealing food for his starving family and the authorities torturing a person without legal mandate are two totally incomparable scenarios. The author has an acute problem of putting forth little detail when it comes to giving examples. For instance, the statement “two weeks of torture broke the al-Qaida conspirator who betrayed the plot to blow up those airliners and the phrase, “the caning of that American kid in Singapore” has no mention of the name of the person or the location and time of this incident that the author is referring to. The author has not even clarified as to how did the caning “cause a firestorm” making it extremely vague and ambiguous.
Approximate Word count = 748
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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