Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp: Analysis of Arguments and Closure

This assignment analyzes three arguments related to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, focusing on the ethical and legal debates surrounding its closure. The student examines articles discussing the involvement of healthcare professionals in torture, the use of coercion in obtaining inform...Read More

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Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp should close
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Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp should close
Crosby, S. S., & Benavidez, G. (2018). From Nuremberg to Guantanamo Bay: Uses of
physicians in the war on terror. American Journal of Public Health, 108(1), 36–41.
The journal article illustrates the involvement of the health professionals in torturing
detainees in Guantanamo Bay detention camp. For instance, authors explain that while
some doctors were not actively engaged in torture, their supervisors and some doctors
actively performed torture such as rectal rehydration and waterboarding. The data in the
article was obtained from the healthcare professionals who directly or indirectly
participated in gathering intelligence after the 9/11 terrorist attack. The warrant to the
argument is that using the medical professionals for executing torture and pain is against
the professional and ethical considerations. The backing to the warrant is the knowledge
and awareness of the existing rules and ethics that are documented and signed by the
physicians before their professional certification.

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The rebuttal to the warrant are the critics that the medical practitioners could be working
under the strict command and supervision of the military generals where they are left
without alternatives rather than carrying out the medical tortures. The warrant and the
backing are appropriate foundations for authoritative reasoning that seeks to address the
claim that the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp should be closed since it is making the
medical practitioners to go against the ethical dictates of administering pain in the fight
against war and terror. Concisely, the claim presents a proper qualifier for both the
warrant and its backing that seeks to restore the professional violations being committed
by the healthcare professionals in the US at under the watch of the government in the
name of the fight against terror and war.
Foley, B. (2007). Guantanamo and Beyond: Dangers of Rigging the Rules. Journal of
Criminal Law and Criminology, Volume 97(4).

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The article critics the opinions that Guantanamo Bay is a ploy for the United States to
create their take on rules aside from the U.S. government regarding the war on terrorism.
The data used in the article is both explicit and implicit where the author relies on the
court rulings as well as the actions of the US military generals used to obtain information
from the captives forcefully. The warrant to the argument is that the innocent people are
likely to falsely confess when subjected to severe coercion thus giving false confessions,
which results in inaccurate intelligence in dealing with terrorism. The warrant is backed
by the formation of the Combat Status Review Tribunal that was established by Bush that
was considered to rubberstamp the government’s case through limiting the rights of the
captives.
The warrant and its backing compel the use of authoritative reasoning that compels the
claim in the article that the policymakers in the United States should forge effective

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interrogation and detention policies that recognize the relation between proper
investigations and the means of obtaining information from the prisoners. However, the
rebuttal to the warrant is based on the psychological aspects of pain that are perceived to
subject individuals to breakpoints thus providing information. The qualifier to the warrant
is that many captives are likely to succumb to severe mental and physical injuries and
even death at the facility without giving the anticipated information thus failing to
apprehend the terrorist activities.
Pearlman, S. (2014). Human Rights Violations at Guantanamo Bay: How the United States
Has Avoided Enforcement of International Norms. Seattle UL Rev., 38, 1109.

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The research is centered on the application of the law in the protection of human rights,
in essence, the international law on the real-life scenario. The paper depicts that the
things that have happened in Guantanamo Bay are violating basic human rights regarding
the Geneva Convention. It is prohibiting cruel treatment and torture, in addition to
“humiliating and degrading treatment.” Besides, the Guantanamo detention camp is
violating the extraterritorial application of human right treaties. It is questionable to those
reasons that detention camp remained open with legality and ambiguous between
international law and US military law need to be reviewed. The data used by the research
is explicit which points out the acts of violation committed at the facility that included
torture, inhuman conditions, indefinite and illegal detention among others. The data limits
the potential loopholes for doubts to the reader concerning the actions that took place at
the facility.

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Moreover, the warrant for the argument is the commission of the inhuman acts despite
the existence of the national and international laws set by the international covenant for
civil and political rights and Geneva Convention that are aimed at protection of human
rights against inhuman activities. Concisely, the backing to this warrant is that the laws
are set by the international bodies and agencies in which the United States is a member
and consents to understand these laws governing human rights. Therefore, the warrant
and backing form a strong basis of authoritative reasoning as the international bodies are
calling upon the US to abide by the law thus providing a strong qualifier for rebuttal.
However, rebuttal critics to the claim that the US is executing injustices at the facility
which rebuts that the detention of the criminals at the facility is necessary for the
acquisition of information that could help in safeguarding the lives of many Americans
and other citizens around the globe.
References

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Crosby, S. S., & Benavidez, G. (2018). From Nuremberg to Guantanamo Bay: Uses of
physicians in the war on terror. American Journal of Public Health, 108(1), 36–41.
Retrieved from http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/
login.aspx?direct=true&db=s3h&AN=126645377&site=eds-live&scope=site
Foley, B. (2007). Guantanamo and Beyond: Dangers of Rigging the Rules. Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology, Volume 97(Issue 4). Retrieved from
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=7273&context=jclc
Pearlman, S. (2014). Human Rights Violations at Guantanamo Bay: How the United States Has
Avoided Enforcement of International Norms. Seattle UL Rev., 38, 1109.