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.
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism a love of Australia… a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.