U.S. Releases New Memo Defining Torture

The Justice Department released a rewritten legal memo on what constitutes torture, backing away from its own assertions prior to the Iraqi prison abuse scandal that torture had to involve “excruciating and agonizing pain.”

A little international scandal here, a little revisionist history there, and voila! We’re the good guys again.

It’s great that they rewrote that memo. Now if only they could rewrite the collective memory of the entire Arab world …