Commentary Week in Review: A War of Words

Iran, Venezuela and the United States exchanged verbal machine-gun fire at the United Nations. The Pope ignited a new fight over semantics with Islam and U.S. politicians locked horns over the terminology of torture law.

A war of words broke out across the globe this week and commentators wasted no time filling the world's English-language opinion pages with clarifications of what was being said.

There was also a coup in Thailand and a few new things were written -- although unsurprisingly nothing was done -- about the crisis in Sudan.

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