The point being made about not celebrating the death of one's enemy is valid, but it's not the same as rejoicing in victory. There was no harm in rejoicing in VE Day and VJ Day, it meant we were no longer killing and being killed, that our servicemen and women would be on the way home, that families would be re-united. That's not a celebration of blood lust.

Little Hawk is right, robomatic. You don't get his meaning. It's a delicate difference but it is an important one, and it's definitely there.

In the context of the quote from Lao Tzu, rejoicing in victory is not the same thing as rejoicing in deliverance. On VE day and VJ day, the people who were rejoicing in the fact that they were no longer being killed forced to kill were rejoicing in deliverance. Rejoicing in victory would be what Hitler would have done had he won.