"TORTURE'S TERRIBLE TOLL", BUT NEVER JUSTIFIED John McCain, in his article called "Torture's Terrible Toll" states that torture should not be part of the American mechanisms' to protect "American's soldiers, allies and American people's life." He believes that even in extreme cases such as 9/11, torture should not be considered as one of the options to resolve and so justified actions of abuse against human treatment. McCain also shares his personal experience of capture and points out how can a captured enemy could just be saying false information to relieve the pain from his torturer. He also talks how not using torture as a tool to defeat the enemies' attacks, makes Americans different from its enemies by just about human rights. He states how grateful and strong Americans soldiers fight and keep his honor with the believe that they are better than his captors. McCain believes that "American people needs intelligence to defeat their enemies", but intelligence that is really reliable", no brutal and cruel intelligence as a justification. …show more content…
He talks about his experience of being tortured, the feelings and thoughts he had and the actions he did. McCain tells us how he provided wrong information when he was forced to give the names of his flight squadron. He thought that the only way to stop his pain was just to give the captor what he wanted. Even if the information he was giving was false, but enough to convince that it was true. He states how his case can be the same when torturing the real enemy and how it is pointless to think of torture as the best option to be ahead of a