Quote Originally Posted by Fengzi
While I find flying the flag in front of the current White House nearly as much a desecration as buring it, the flag represents much more than a corrupt admistration. It represents a great country, what we stand for, and what we should be. It will be here long after ol' Dubya is gone. If you want to burn something, burn an effigy of Bush instead.
I'm having a hard time with a couple points in this thread... I'd love to wave the flag and say that we stand for great things and that we should expect great things, but all I see is polorizing rants and posts from the NPR/PBS and TalkRadio/FoxNews crowds.

I respect--actually, I'll defend to the death--the right to free speech, but I also want to know more about "what the fuck" is eating someone that burns it... Maybe I'll want to smack them when I hear why they're burning it and maybe I won't. I've never bought this "my country right or wrong" crap.

Isn't that how we went from 9/11 to the Axis of Evil speach? Some goober (Bush speaking through Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz) takes a horrible event and decides it's us against the world and goes out and creates enemies.