Before we accuse others of torture, remember we were good at it, too

NEWT GINGRICH put up a stout defence of US President George W Bush’s intervention in Iraq on Marian Finucane’s radio show on Thursday.

It was a fascinating interview in which he denounced torture, yet seemed to argue that it could be used in certain cases, such as in the event of the capture of a lieutenant of somebody trying to nuke a city.

Would it be justified to torture that person to get information in time to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people?