The New York Times and Sunday morning political talk shows are contorting themselves into linguistically-torturous positions in a feeble attempt to avoid using the word "torture" to describe the immoral and criminal techniques employed at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and CIA black sites against suspected al Qaeda-linked prisoners.
Now,
Foreign Policy magazine has produced the euphemism-free "ultimate guide to the Bush Administration's journey to the dark side."