Dear god, my post actually caused all this nonsense. May I summarise, and then have the thread confined to a dark hole somewhere? Gitmo perhaps?
Americans think Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (aka torture) are fine as long as they're the perpetrator not the victim. If they're the victim they constitute inhumane torture and will go off into a lengthy rant about the Vietnamese, the Japanese and any other army which gave them a hard time.
The Brits think the whole thing is awful, conveniently ignoring the fact that they were a) observers b) advisers c) facilitators and d) probably participants (which will, of course, have been redacted).
The Aussies are fretting over a shootout in Sydney and are a mite preoccupied at the moment.
The remainder of the civilised world are rolling their eyes going, 'WTF are these guys on?'.
End of thread.