The Failure Of Torture In The Vietnam War

In “The Case for Torture”, philosophy professor Michael Levin attempts to defend using torture as a means to save lives is justifiable and necessary. Throughout the article, Levin provides persuasive arguments to support his essay using clever wording and powerful, moving examples. However, the essay consists heavily of pathos, fallacies, and “What if?” situations that single out torture as the only method of resolution, rendering the argument hypothetical, weak, and unreliable for the city of San Jose as a whole community to follow.

Sparked by the Versailles Peace Treaty, the second wave of terrorism began. The second wave, also known as the anti-colonial wave, is where terrorism campaigns were fought over political problems where it would look too weak to back out. The third wave, or “New Left,” began after the Vietnam War. The New Left was the beginning of hijackings with the mix of the first wave’s radical and nationalistic intentions. The second wave includes groups, such as the PLO and FLN, whereas the New Left includes the Weather Underground and the Red Brigades. Each group has their own objective, strategy, and support which made them stronger.

The Vietnam War and its horrors came into the living rooms of people through from news reports through television. This war was the first war to issue full freedom to the press. There was a huge response to what people saw in a negative way. Many people thought the war should not have been televised. According to “U.S. at War: A History of Shame”, it was until 1965 that the Vietnam War became a big story on television. Journalism coverage of this war using television had a huge effect on the people of the United States and how they view the Vietnam War.

The Vietnam War was one of the longest and most complex wars our country has ever taken part. One of the argument we had to do with the nature of the war, with some speakers arguing that it was actually a irregular war, and others disagreed, saying that it was a regular war. You talk to people who served in Vietnam, you get a bigger of views of the war and the enemy they were engaged in fighting, and that will be because some were engaged in fighting in one area, some up in the north near the demilitarized zone, where the nature of the war was, and others who might have found themselves in the Mekong Delta, where for most of the time the war was more of a irregular. Then, some who served in the early period will have one experience, while some

This investigation will answer the question to what extent the failure of American intervention in the Vietnam War was solely a result of faulty military strategy.

War as we know is destructive, violent, and unfair. War is neither fun or rewarding, it is deadly. Due to these circumstances, there are innocent civilian casualties, woebegone deaths, and vulnerable families. Moreover war requires troops, a panoply of drafted troops, unprepared civilians thrown into a war; known or unknown to them. War will be ephemeral if there are casualties. “500,000 of the 3 million troops who served in Vietnam suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and rates of divorce, suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction were markedly higher among veterans.” War brings despair into homes, troops who don’t come back, homes that become barren lands, and more financial problems. There is no harbinger for

Is torture ever acceptable? Torture has been a topic that people have been struggling to decide if it is right or wrong. Torture should be allowed in certain cases such a terrorists.

Ho Chi Minh was a tiny man, frail in appearance and extremely deferential. He wore simple shorts and sandals. To his followers, he was known simply as “Uncle Ho.” Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s call for universal self-determination, Ho wrote,” all subject peoples are filled with hope by the prospect that an era of right and justice is opening to them.” Ho wanted to meet Wilson and plead the cause of Vietnamese independence. Wilson ignored his request. Ho then traveled to Moscow, where Lenin had declared war against imperialism. While in the Soviet Union, Ho embraced socialism. By the early 1920s, he was actively organizing Vietnamese exiles into a revolutionary force. In 1941, Ho returned to Vietnam. The time was right, he believed, to free Vietnam

Interviewed in Paris where he was residing, Bui Tin (a former colonel in the North Vietnamese Army) told Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human rights activist: “…Gen. (Vo Nguyen) Giap (commander of the North Vietnamese Army) believed that guerrilla warfare was important but not sufficient for victory. Regular military divisions with artillery and armour would be needed. The Chinese believed in fighting only with guerrillas but we had a different approach…” (See (15) below on the Communist conquest of China in 1948—49)

A swarm of terror arose when news of torture at Abu Ghraib, a U.S military prison, was revealed. The chilling images reveal soldiers “taunting naked Iraqi prisoners who are forced to assume humiliating poses” (Hersh). People did not know how to react and were taking sides; whether the matter was an unethical issue or if it was just a harmless way for soldiers to blow off some steam. Torture of prisoners is a debatable problem that needs solving. The act is justified by being called “enhanced interrogation” (Bloche 1330). Some think the problem is insignificant because they believe that torture is part of the prisoner’s punishment. However, torture is a dehumanizing act. Not only is torture of prisoners illegal, it is unfair and mentally and physically distressing.

The soldiers followed on the heels of the tax collectors. “And us? What are we to do?” John said, “Don’t take advantage of your position to extort money from people. Don’t make false accusations. Be happy with what you are paid.”

War is a complex event that is a part of the world's reality as we know it. Fighting a war for a particular cause and to ultimately benefit from that cause is the reason we go to war in the first place. Vietnam, a country divided, a war being fought by Americans fending off a communist push from the North Vietnamese trying to takeover a non-communist South Vietnam. A war meant to stand for a Free World's ability to stay a free world under a threat from an enemy whose beliefs are much different. Determination to stop this country from falling under communist domination also means protecting the United States from future threats of its own, so they say. What happens when secrecy and pessimism play a huge role in a waging war that seems to have no meaning at all in the eyes of the public and even in the eyes of the unfortunate soldiers fighting this war? The fundamental values of America have been tested and truthfully diminished due to the brutal and uncharacteristically meaningless war fought in Vietnam. American veterans tell all.

Bloody, grueling, controversial and it changed America forever, what could it be? The Vietnam war is what it is. The war officially started August 2, 1964 after the Gulf of Tonkin incident where the North Vietnamese fired on a US destroyer. Precedent to that incident the United States had already sent military advisors and a small number of troops to stop aid the southern vietnamese from being overrun by communist forces. There was heavy casualties on both sides 58,000 on the American side and 533,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths.

The Vietnam War was one of the greatest controversial wars that was fought. Not only was North and South Vietnam involved, but also the United States and others. A common myth is that the Vietnam War was less intense than World War II. In the Vietnam War, those wounded or killed was more than 300% higher. With South Vietnam’s lost in this war, the country today, is a communist country. The Sorrow of War is a story of a North Vietnamese soldier, Kien, during and after the war. The story illustrates how Kien goes through his life living with PTSD and having flashbacks of the war and he becomes an author. The Sorrow of the War stayed mostly true to what happened in the Vietnam War. Kien went through diseases, talked about the battles of the Vietnam War, and the effects of the war.

Captain Miller and his brave crew are on Higgens Boats along with thousands more. They are looking to arrive at Omaha Beach where thousands of German soldiers await for their presence with machine guns. The ramps start to come down on the Higgins Boats and before the ramps can be fully down over half the soldiers in that boat are being mowed down by machine guns. With bravery and smartness Captain and his crew rush to the base of the beach as fastly as possible, looking to take down the German infantry. Making it to the beach was Captain Miller’s first sigh of relief. The crew now looks to take down the Germans. Private Jackson snipes one of the main machine gun stations while the rest of the crew