[Texas_Jarhead]

I don't recall ever seeing another flag defaced with the peace symbol.

[Cronos]

There is one reason most of the posters are forgetting -- the USA is the biggest fish in the ocean, it's the number 1 all powerful superpower, with an economy larger than it's rivals, a military larger and more powerful than ALL others and a cultural magnet that makes kids from Brighton to Bombay to Beijing to Barbados want to act Americano. The US is that smartest, most athletic, most good-looking, super-duper kid in the class who everyone wants to be and yet everyone dislikes because they can't be even 1/8th of what the USA is.

If you want to be so ahead of the pack, you gotta be prepared for the stones they toss at your back.