Criticizing is easier than self-criticism

Now we all know why it's never the United States, but the rest of the world that engages in torture. It's simply because the US doesn't call it torture, it calls it enhanced interrogation techniques, or EIT.

But no matter how much nicer it sounds, EIT is heinous and brutal torture as the Tuesday release of a Senate report on interrogations conducted by the CIA makes clear.

In fact, the US is very adept at using such euphemisms and obfuscation, and not just for torture. For instance, some American and Australian pundits launched a crusade against China's cyberpolicy and practice during a seminar at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday.