I have been waiting quite a while to watch the movie "Rendition" with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gylenhaal and Tuesday it finally came out. The movie is based on the realism of the term Rendition that is used by the US. According to David Ignatius from the Washingtonpost.com, rendition is the CIA's antiseptic term for its practice of sending captured terrorists suspects to other countries for interrogation.
This is exactly what the movie is about. A terrorist attack (caused by Egyptian terrorists) ocurred in a different country and an American man was killed along with 19 other people. A random egyptian man (Reese's husband) was just entering the US and was taken and flown to another country and tortured for information about something that he had nothing to do with.
This issue is pretty difficult for me. I am probably about 60/40 when it comes to torture. 60 percent against it and 40 percent for it. The thing is that when a person is suspected of terrorism there is generally a good reason why. Part of me feels like it is our countries responsibility to protect it's citizens and if torturing one person to get information that could possibly save thousands is what it takes then what is the problem? But the problem is that according the Washingtonpost, it is obvious that when under that much intense pain, a person is going to admit to actions or give information even if they have nothing to do with any of it, just so the torture will end. That is exactly what happened in the movie, the man made up some information when in reality he had nothing to do with it. But the biggest problem is the fact that innocent people are being tortured, and we have no idea how many because it's such a big secret.
I feel like torture should only be allowed if there is real proof that the person had something to do with terrorist attacks or is involved in something to do with terrorism. I feel like our country has been through a lot because of 9/11 and since then we have taken more measures for our citizens protection. I believe that there should be a limit to the torture and if it doesn't work then it needs to be discontinued. Like I said i go back and forth on this issue because I know for a fact that I coul never torture a person, or even witness it. But personally, if it's going to save my life, my family's life and everybody i know, then i'm all for it.
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