Eventually, even Godwin will be repealed

In a just universe the LCDs at the National Review offices would be splattered with grey matter right about now, as their brains try, and fail, to sort out who the bad guys in all this are:

WASHINGTON — The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive
management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

I can't help but think of Jonah Goldberg's reaction to someone suggesting he read The Gulag Archipelago:

I've read the Gulag Archipelago. It didn't tell me everything I needed to know about torture, it told me almost everything I needed to know about the evil of the Soviet Union. And, guess what? The comparison between the United States and the Soviet Union is idiotic and slanderous. Our recent experience on waterboarding proves exactly that.

It's true: comparing the US and USSR is idiotic and slanderous. Comparing the US to Mao-era Communist China, it turns out, is factually unimpeachable.