Good points. I don't say they're the exact same thing, like jellicle does, but I do think they're both propaganda, and for the same result: to make a few people

Good points. I don't say they're the exact same thing, like jellicle does, but I do think they're both propaganda, and for the same result: to make a few people richer and more powerful, via war. You're right that Americans could disparage the recent war efforts, but if you were doing that to someone with that yellow sticker, you were (in my experience) talking to someone who supported the troops by supporting the war. I'm confident that was the intent of the yellow ribbon.