I think that the United States has in no doubt committed torture in the past decade or so. Torture, by definition means the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. Besides the obvious past forms of torture in the past years like slavery and the torture used during the times of segregation, there are other forms of torture that comes to one’s mind. In the past decade and during the war overseas, the immediate example that comes to my mind is the torture United States troops endured on Iraqi prisoners. The US troops forced the Iraqi prisoners into involuntary homo-sexual acts and other embarrassing endeavors. If you refer to the definition at the top, that examples applies to this case directly,…for sheer cruelty.

Torture in any way is absolutely wrong. Whether it is on a much smaller scale like a bully taking a smaller child’s lunch money or on more of a grander scale like the United States troop, torture is torture. This is absolutely wrong because it can scar one’s mind and/or body for life. Anytime anyone can cause an effect on somebody’s life that much, it is a huge deal. I am going to compare torture to that of abortion or murder. In abortion or murder, you take one’s life. Depending on how detrimental somebody tortures a victim, it can take one’s life also. Virtually, they are the same thing. If one commits torture, then one commits murder.