"They're pretty good at press releases"

Amnesty International has compared the US to Syria and Chile under Pinochet in its use of torture, an Australian newspaper has reported.

Returning to centrism, Amnesty also referred to the US as a country that "was once considered an exemplar of human rights." The use of the passive voice allows them to avoid using a subject who was doing the considering, which makes sense, because few such subjects exist.

[Tags: War on Terror, Amnesty International]