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State department enacts one flag policies
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The OP is wanting us to cheer for a one flag policy. Its the thread title. And hes pretty sure about "one nation, one flag!"
Personally I'm not attached to this only fly one flag idea. So POW MIA is is fine.
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It just seems odd when the policy is entitled "One Flag Policy"
Not to mention people loudly asserting:
One nation, one flag!
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I simply believe US Embassy abroad only needs one flag to represent our country.
It was that way in the 1980's when I served abroad and I see no reason to add flags....for any cause.
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Genuine question: were you equally as opposed when the Biden Administration granted "blanket authorization" to fly the pride flag?
Posts are given "blanket written authorization ... to display the Pride flag on the external-facing flagpole, for the duration of the 2021 Pride season," said the cable, which was first reported by Foreign Policy magazine. "This is an authorization, not a requirement."
Biden admin. grants 'blanket authorization' to fly Pride flag at embassies
The policy, detailed in a cable obtained by ABC News, repeals a ban by Secretary of State Blinken's predecessor Mike Pompeo on Pride flags from flying at U.S. embassies.
Also, while I would agree with you that flying flags for any "cause" is unnecessary, I'm not sure that I would agree that the POW/MIA flag, which has flown in and over government buildings since 1982, is a flag for a "cause".
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Genuine question: were you equally as opposed when the Biden Administration granted "blanket authorization" to fly the pride flag?
Posts are given "blanket written authorization ... to display the Pride flag on the external-facing flagpole, for the duration of the 2021 Pride season," said the cable, which was first reported by Foreign Policy magazine. "This is an authorization, not a requirement."Biden admin. grants 'blanket authorization' to fly Pride flag at embassies
The policy, detailed in a cable obtained by ABC News, repeals a ban by Secretary of State Blinken's predecessor Mike Pompeo on Pride flags from flying at U.S. embassies.abcnews.go.com
Also, while I would agree with you that flying flags for any "cause" is unnecessary, I'm not sure that I would agree that the POW/MIA flag, which has flown in and over government buildings since 1982, is a flag for a "cause".
I don't agree with the Biden directive.
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Nope. And to be clear, I don't oppose the flying of the POW/MIA flag either. I'm just highlighting the logical inconsistency in the argument.
How long a flag has been flown has no bearing on whether or not its purpose is to advance a cause. And the POW/MIA flag absolutely is about advancing a cause - the return of US POWs and MIA soldiers or their remains. It's a cause that just about everyone in the country can get behind, so it's not exactly controversial, but it's a cause nonetheless.
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Sit back - take a deep breath -believe it or not - you and I agree 100%
One Nation - one flag - the cause celeb flags, even for good causes should not be mandated nor allowed on foreign soil.
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Fifty states = fifty-one flags. Three thousand seven counties = three thousand fifty-eight flags. I don't know though, maybe there are counties with county office buildings that don't have a county flag.
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The focus is flags flown outside foreign embassy's - as far as I know there are no US foreign embassy's in any state.
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Yes, you're right. I was just thinking of any government building. I have no objection to this new trinity flag policy.
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