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Rant: The way I see it, if you look hard enough, any "proud" event in a nation's history that involved direct human conflict can be viewed as self-serving and despicable. Torture the data, and I assure you that it will confess.

It is utterly facile and incorrect to say "no one is completely pure and right, therefore everyone is wrong", because "right" and "wrong" lose their meaning at that point. "Less guilt-inducing" and "more guilt-inducing" take their place.

It's all grey. It always has been. Don't think you're being particularly enlightened becuase you successfully revise history to assuage your guilt or shame on a particular issue.

Everyone else does it, too.