Grim but worthwhile

Juan Cole has been running a series of guest editorials at his 'informed comment' blog. Since Juan is a big voice in the real world he's able to get a high quality of guest. Todays is from William Polk who " was in charge of planning American policy for most of the Islamic world until 1965 when he became professor of history at the University of Chicago and founded its Middle Eastern Studies Center."

Anyway, his piece is on torture. Yesterdays was on American Colonialism.