What have I cast on the world? a creature powerful in form, of supernatural and gigantic strength, but with the mind of an infant. Oh, that I could recall my impious labour, or suddenly extinguish the spark which I have so presumptuously bestowed.

Sullivan, again, on the "terror war":

“Have we misread the world - and over-estimated the threat - even more profoundly than we realize? That is the question.”

Of course you have. And many of us on the left have been trying to tell you that for six and a half years. But, and maybe you remember this, we were derided as a “fifth column”, traitors, America-hating terrorist-huggers, and worse, by people who insisted this was (and still is) the mightiest clash of civilizations the world has ever seen. You guys over-estimated the threat, hyped it, worked yourselves into an embarrassing frenzy and then based a disastrous foreign policy around what you imagined.

It's nice that Sullivan himself has started to see the light on this, but there are still millions of people out there who revel in the myth of a Great War to save our civilization from the Muslim hordes; a myth he played a large role in creating. Sadly, it's probably easier to create such a myth than to destroy it.