Sunday Reading

Looking for something to do inside on this hot-as-hell Sunday afternoon? Try reading these excellent pieces.

• From today's New York Times, a fascinating retrospective about how the war in Iraq and general administration incompetence are causing us to fail in Afghanistan, too.
• From the Village Voice, a pretty astonishing takedown of Rudy Guiliani on his primary (only) issue of terrorism. He's much worse than you probably think.
• From Jane Mayer writing in the New Yorker, the tragic tale of how the US came to conclude that the same torture techniques that the Soviets used to generate false confessions for their show trials would be a useful enhancement to our intelligence capability in the "GWOT."