Yup, and courage is a good thing when it stops short of arrogant violence and brutality.

Every nation is a part of the quilt that makes up one humanity, and its particular virtues add beautiful color to that quilt.

When one nation begins imagining that the rest of the quilt revolves around it, however, the whole quilt is in danger of unraveling...as is now happening.

When one nation assumes that it is intrinsically superior to all other nations it becomes a danger to its own people, to its neighbours, and even to the whole world, and yet this has happened over and over again throughout history.

It has happened with countries like:

Assyria

Persia

Greece

Rome

Spain

Great Britain

France

Germany

Japan

China

Kampuchea (the Khymer Rouge)

Iraq

The USA

Israel

When this obsession of supposed superiority over others takes over a nation, it commonly uses the ideal of patriotism to justify police state tactics at home and invasion and destruction abroad.

One thing is certain: Such a nation finally ends up with much of the rest of the World forming a grand alliance against it, and it is finally brought down from its tower of hubris, and frequently crushed utterly in the process, thus inheriting the whirlwind it released upon the community of nations. That is the fate of tyrants, large and small.

It happened to Spain. It happened to Germany. It happened to Japan.

Bear it in mind.