If we indulge in a bit of chest-thumping and flag-waving when the job is done, well, we earned it.
But flag-waving Americans shouldn't be dismayed.
In Manly, in north Sydney, an 80-strong flag-waving mob harassed and assaulted nonwhite passers-by and shop owners, jumped on cars and chanted "Aussie pride.
Tens of thousands on streets, Turkish PM Erdogan defiant By Nick Tattersall and Parisa Hafezi ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told flag-waving supporters on Sunday that his patience with mass anti-government protests had its limits, and moved to seize back the initiative by announcing counter-rallies next weekend. As Erdogan spoke in the capital Ankara, tens of thousands massed in an Istanbul square to demand his ...
June 9, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Tourists Still Feel Safe in Istanbul Amid Protests It's reasonable advice anywhere in the world, but with frightening images of tear gas and flag-waving demonstrators, does Turkey remain a safe place for tourists?
June 7, 2013 - Bloomberg
Amid protests, Erdogan returns to Turkey Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an end to about a week of protests against his government, and said that accusations of excessive police force would be investigated. Erdogan arrived early Friday in Istanbul, where he was met at an airport by thousands of cheering, flag-waving supporters. He had been on a four-day trip to North Africa. "These demonstrations have lost all ...
June 7, 2013 - KSAT San Antonio
Sam Sullivan in Montreal Gazette It was tremendous, I got a lot of people with disabilities who wrote to me,said Sullivan, a quadriplegic. "I had a woman from Serbia run after me in the streets and say 'you changed our country [with the flag-waving example] .' "
Alberto Salazar in International Herald Tribune I think it would have a tremendous impact way beyond flag-waving and pride,said Salazar, who now works in the running department at Nike and will run the first 16 kilometers (10 miles) of this weekend's marathon to help pace Lance Armstrong....