This image was provided on a user’s blog along with a link to a an article about how US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended torture saying it is not necessarily illegal according to the constitution. Though this 2006 cartoon by Mike Luckovich was not drawn as a reaction to that specific incident, it does mocks the US’s attempts to justify torture as long as it is within the guidelines laid out in some sort of book (the Constitution, the Third Geneva Convention, or the CIA’s guidelines for torture etiquette. This anti-torture cartoon hopefully makes the viewer think about how the torture performed by the US and Al-Qaeda is the same (the two men are dressed the same as if about to conduct the same torture acts), but the US has to consult the rulebook first. Consulting the rules does nothing because they are both intending to go through with torture anyway. I think it is trying to say that it is irrelevant whether or not the US follows and rules of etiquette, torture is still torture and is barbaric. This with fit in with my paper because I will use documents such as the Geneva Conventions that do have elements addresses in the cartoon (page 17, paragraph 9, line 4).
Interestingly this cartoon also points to my topic, which has to do with terrorism and who is terrorist. Well looking at this cartoon has helped me with my paper as well. Anyway this cartoon is very relevant to your topic because you can make an argument using Geneva Conventions like you stated. And try to see how you can use this cartoon in your paper so that you know which cartoon you are going to present first and then which cartoon going to be second and thinking about this will help because it will lay out how you would want to make your argument.
Harman makes an important question. How will you use these images in your researched argument? Think back to that list we went over in class about using sources…Be rhetorically savvy in how to use them….