Apparently it's not to offend Yassar Arafat, Osama bin Laden, The House of Saud, Mohamar Khadaffi and other terrorists by displaying the American Flag on "their" soil.
We Americans must be sensitive to the "Arab Street", you know...
Has anyone on this thread cared to ask how the flag ban makes the fighting men and women feel? They are risking their lives for their country, only to have the politicians spit on them by banning the symbol of their country.
Every single one of them must be now asking themselves, "What am I fighting for, if not for the American flag and what it represents?"
Does anyone on this embarassing thread really believe that the terrorists are now saying, "Oh, how sensitive of the great satan not to display the hated flag. We've been wrong about the infidels for all these years. Allah forgive us, We're going to turn in all our suicide bombs now and become productive members of a free society."
But please, explain how our purpose there is to crawl on our knees and apologize to every Arab we see for actually believing in freedom and daring to bring it to them. Explain how our military should be reprimanded by the politicians for proudly displaying the universal symbol of freedom in a country dying for such things. I'd like to hear it.