Go to Sullivan's site.
You'll learn all you need to know about why the country's in such a disastrous state- Iraq as well as America - and thus the world.
You'll learn also why it isn't going to get better any time too soon.
Why?
He's been manfully chasing down the thrilling story of Hillary's leaving/not leaving a tip at a restaurant.
He's so determined to find out if she left a big tip, a small tip, if she lied about it, ad nauseum.
Yet where were his detective powers in questioning the run-up to the war?
Nowhere to be found.
Oh yes, he's 'renounced' Bush and the war, now.
He's appalled by the torture.
But what really aggravates him is Hillary not leaving a tip.
What aggravates him is that Bill Clinton said Hillary was being 'swiftboated' - though he said no such thing.
What's it all prove?
That he is obsessed with one politician 'lying' about a tip, but not too perturbed with one who lies about the rationale for sending thousands of soldiers to their deaths.
By his own admission, Sullivan's party has committed war crimes and undermined the Constitution.
But Sullivan is still a partisan, and the trivial infractions of the other side are seen by him to be of equal or greater weight.
When he wrings his hands about torture, the disaster in Iraq, the unlawful government, don't believe him.
He's only trying to position himself, to alleviate whatever guilt he feels about enabling it all.
But in the end, worse than any atrocity Bush could commit, there will always be an invented triviliaty Sullivan can pull out of his ass which will distress and outrage him further even than secret prisons and waterboarding.
Hillary lied about leaving a tip!