Joseph McCarthy was dead on when regarding the Cold War and it's how we must fight the War on Terror. America was much more patriotic back then and we must work to bring our nation back to the supremacy we had in the 1950's-1980's.
Why? A lot of that just makes people look insecure. If you go to other countries there isn't all this flag waving and they get along just fine. Like I said I don't care if some third rate rock musician from some other country wipes his bum with an American flag in Mexico or Canada.