Obligatory Sullivan derision

Throw what you will at Andrew Sullivan, and there're plenty of opportunities for mockery, but one is rather unimpeachable: he’s not a very good writer.

From Time:

One word brought together the disparate events of 2004: insurgency. It's a strange term — but we've got quite used to it. Think of it as not quite a revolution but more than mere discontent. The dictionary describes it as "a condition of revolt against a recognized government that does not reach the proportions of an organized revolutionary government." Yep, a war that is not a real war, a halfway, inconclusive revolt without end, a battle of attrition that polarizes as it goes essentially nowhere.