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...South Carolina Legislature will soon pass a compromise bill that will remove the Confederate flag from the top of the statehouse, (a point where it is visible throughout almost the entire capital). But don't start cheering yet. A slightly altered confederate flag (square instead of rectangular, with a white border) will fly in a prominent spot on the state house grounds next to a memorial for the Confederate dead. In the inevitable relief following this victory, we must remember not to sing our praises too loudly...
While the bill is a step in the right direction, it does not signal any kind of contrition on the part of pro-flag state legislators, nor does it promise any statewide reconciliation between the races. The removal of the Confederate flag could have been an event to bring South Carolina into the 19th century. A public acknowledgement of the wrongs the South had committed and their willingness to move past bigotry. Instead, this "great" "compromise" has merely reaffirmed the tenacity with which flag supporters cling to the memory of Old Dixie...
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...memory recedes at generational warp speed. Those who remember, remember. But a senior in college now was born three or four years after Saigon fell and changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City. I see the black POW-MIA flag still flying (though frayed) above a post office or police barracks in Massachusetts. No one raised an outcry of political correctness when John McCain referred some weeks ago to his North Vietnamese jailers as "gooks" - the feeling being, I guess, that his years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a pass...
...angry mob outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. Childers and his troops are helicoptered in to protect the embassy and, if necessary, to remove the ambassador. Childers saves the cowardly ambassador (played by an uncreative Ben Kingsley) and his family, and even more importantly, he rescues the American flag from the roof of the building. The next task is to fight off those dangerous Yemenites. Jackson becomes agitated after three of his troops are shot, so instead of focussing on warding off the snipers that are firing at the embassy, he has his men open fire into the crowd below...