'Enhanced interrogation' should be safe, legal, and rare

The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web blog notes that the New York Times is not squeamish about using words such as "harsh" and "brutal" to describe various interrogation techniques (a.k.a. "torture"): "When the paper needs a short description, the word brutal is accurate and appropriate, whether you think the acts were justified or not." But in 2005, when partial birth abortion was the topic, the Times took the trouble to only ascribe such terms to opponents of the procedure, as in, "Opponents of abortion refer to the method as partial-birth abortion and denounce it as brutal and uncivilized." Best of the Web