Guantanamo Bay Propaganda Article

I just got through reading the article we had to read about Guantanamo Bay. I have always heard about Guantanamo Bay, but I actually don’t even know what it is. No, I’m not kidding. Yes, I know, I’m way too apathetic about these issues.

Well, I decided to look up what it is on none other than Wikipedia. I can tell from the article it seems to be a place where they keep supposed terrorists to interrogate them. Well, that’s just what I inferred from the article anyway. According to Wiki, it’s actually a U.S. military detention camp. According to the opening paragraph, the detainees will eventually be released, while 6 of them are will be prosecuted for 9/11. That’s not the kind of information I got from this article.

The article says one man was subjected to cruel treatment while being interrogated in the camp-doused with water and kept in an air-conditioned room to induce hypothermia and menaced by a dog for example. If I had read this maybe a month ago, I would of thought “That’s awful!” or “How can they do that?!” I know that’s exactly what the article writer want us to think. Which means this is definitely propaganda. Now I simply think to myself, “Where is he getting this information?” or “Is telling the whole story or is he even telling the truth?” This article hasn’t given me a side to argue for on this topic, nor has it given me an opinion. This article was way too one-sided, and now I’ve learned to look at the bigger picture. I know this author or the magazine has an agenda to fill. Plus I was already skeptical of the statistics. This is all propaganda and that’s obvious.

I realize it’s going to be way harder to research for the paper, given that I have to shift through all of the propaganda now. It’s going to be hard to find the ‘real’ facts. Maybe I won’t actually find them at all, but just use a ton of propaganda for research instead. I just have to be sure and really recognize it when I see it.