'imperial japanese flag'

VeryRisky, on 04 April 2014 - 08:04 PM, said:     While this thread is heading for the archive, could I suggest a few pointers for all   Your country was not always right in every action in the past Neither was the other one This doesn't meant that they behaved equally badly You have the benefit of hindsight that wasn't available to decision makers at the time Pointing out what was wrong, without pointing out what should have been done instead is pretty pointless Actions in the past may be justified on the basis of why they were needed then, not because someone else had done something worse somewhere else, at some other time You can be proud of your country now (if you want to) without trying to justify bad stuff that happened in the past.   Read some history.  But get the book from a normal bookseller.  Not some "alternative" history from mydodgynationalistbookshop.com.