Your comments are being down voted to oblivion. The prevailing narrative of our time is pretty anti-western. Anything the west does is auto-bad, whereas the activities of other cultures, current and historical, are (re)presented as heroic struggles against evil imperial forces. I agree with you, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. It seems like it should be an uncontroversial stance doesn&#x27;t it? Welcome to the modern era where shades of gray don&#x27;t exist, and the best way to accrue Twitter followers it to kick your own culture apart.