Todd Gitlin Quotes
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
Gitlin, Todd. "America's Divided Nation: An Interview with Todd Gitlin." Interview by David Hayes. openDemocracy, 9 Sept. 2004.
The first non-PRI President in over 70 years.
No military alliances has been a tradition in American politics which broke down and changed in our allied effort in WWI. Harding and the Republicans of his day, wanted to reestablish that principle of American Foreign policy. They succeeded, but WWII and its Cold War aftermath made a major change in U. S. policy on this point, and NATO was not only a major permanent military alliance, but lasted well beyond the fall of the Soviet Union. America and our NATO allies were so pleased with the benefits of a permanent military alliance, that they preserved it by looking hard for missions that it could take on rather than dissolve NATO.
This another DeLay quote that deviates from the truth. After 9-11, almost ALL Americans supported the effort to go into Afghanistan and attack the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. However, after President Bush invaded Iraq and tried to justify it as a part of the War on Terror, many liberals and Democrats opposed and protested that part of the war. However so did most of the conservative Libertarians, and many main line Republicans also opposed that part of the war effort. Many in the media opposed the Iraq war efforts, but almost as many supported it—especially most radio talk show hosts. Fox News where he did this interview was a major supporter of the war along with many other media outlets. At the end of President George W. Bush’s second term, a majority of Americans opposed continued fighting in Iraq and most of the media so reported that. Reporting anti war public opinion was interpreted by DeLay as “undermining” the war effort. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Todd Alan Gitlin is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written about the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications.
