And Andrew Sullivan . . .

. . . is my favorite (OK, my only) conservative/republican blog (other than Greg Mankiw, but Mankiw's an economist, so he doesn't count).

Torture In History

The notion that 'torture' has never meant forms of coercive interrogation short of electrocuting someone's balls or tearing their fingernails out (this seems to be Bush's and Bret Stephens' comic book position) is simply disproved by history. I've proved beyond any doubt or rebuttal that the United States itself treated Bush's torture techniques as torture and prosecuted them as war crimes during the Second World War. But the understanding that torture is indeed the precise term for hypothermia, stress positions, confinement, extreme isolation and the like goes back a long, long way.