Torture: It's the new American way

'WE WILL bury you," Nikita Khrushchev told U.S. diplomats in 1956. The conventional wisdom is that Khrushchev got it wrong: The repressive Soviet state collapsed under the weight of its own cruelties and lies while democratic America went from strength to strength, buoyed by its national commitment to liberty and justice for all. But with this week's blockbuster report of secret CIA detention facilities inEastern Europe [CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons], cynics may be pardoned for wondering who really won the Cold War.