It is a Bush administration official on the moment when torture breaks a victim: The job of the interrogator is to safely help the terrorist do his duty to Allah, so he then feels liberated to speak freely. From Neil Gaiman's account of a torturer in hell: We will hurt you. And we are not sorry. But we do not do it to punish you. We do it to redeem you. Because afterward, you'll be a better person ... and because we love you. One day you'll thank us for it. War is peace. Torture is freedom. In the end, you love Big Brother.

On 27 August 2007 Sullivan married his husband Aaron Tone in Provincetown Massachusetts. In a blog entry on 12 March 2009 Sullivan summarised his faith journey to date in this way:

Perhaps the institution dearest to me the Catholic church greeted the emergence of gay people in a way that never truly reflected the compassion of Jesus or the good faith arguments many of us offered as a way forward. On Israel
Sullivan states that he has "always been a Zionist".

Sullivan is a former editor of The New Republic and the author of five books. He has been a guest on national news and political commentary television shows in the United States and Europe. His focus is U.