30. To Save These Men, Feed Them

In this article, Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, challenges the idea of force-feeding in Guantanamo bay, which according to to him is in direct violation of universal medical ethics. The force-feedings started after 86 men whose charges have been cleared began a hunger strike to protest their unfair imprisonment. The author clearly sides with the prisoners. He openly criticizes President Obama's decision to proceed with the force-feedings saying that "saving men by strapping them into chairs and force-feeding them through tubes thrust up their noses and down their throats is not the answer." The author relies a lot on pathos by quoting desperate prisoners .