Kind of reminds me of the scene from Game of Thrones where the Hound tells Sansa Stark "I'm a killer, Joffrey a killer, your father was a killer and your brother is a killer." History is bloody and violent that doesn't mean there aren't things to admire from history. One other example. When I was backpacking in Asia in college I met a group of US vets who fought in Asia during WWII. I got to talking to them about the war and how brutal the Japanese occupation was of SE Asia. In a moment of candor one of them admitted to me that while the Japanese were brutal they, US Marines, were too. Shows like "Band of Brothers; The Pacific" have shed some light on the horrific things that the US Marines did. Even knowing that though we still look back on WWII as a good war and those who fought it as being right in their cause.
