Member Profile Total number of comments: 4 (since 2014-09-14 15:35:01) Todd Gitlin Showing comments 4 - 1Page: 1 Media, Politicians should stop Letting ISIL Manipulate them Todd Gitlin 09/14/2014 at 10:34 am they think they've more to gain from beheadings (recruits, capture of Western weapons, rally anti-Western sentiment) than lose. (4_ Todd Gitlin 09/14/2014 at 10:33 am "love, he avoids hatred..." That said, what's ISIS's longer game? is. As you write they succeed in dividing the West. Also, (3) Todd Gitlin 09/14/2014 at 10:32 am feared than loved. But didn't read this far: "Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he doesn't win (2) Todd Gitlin 09/14/2014 at 10:31 am ISIS wants to be feared, not loved. But they may have misread Machiavelli. Plainly they agree with M. that it's preferable to (1) Showing comments 4 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
they think they've more to gain from beheadings (recruits, capture of Western weapons, rally anti-Western sentiment) than lose. (4_
"love, he avoids hatred..." That said, what's ISIS's longer game? is. As you write they succeed in dividing the West. Also, (3)
feared than loved. But didn't read this far: "Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he doesn't win (2)
ISIS wants to be feared, not loved. But they may have misread Machiavelli. Plainly they agree with M. that it's preferable to (1)