Thank you, Timelord - at last an attempt to 'reason' through a viewpoint! Unsurprisingly, I can't agree with the general thrust for one simple reason - WW2 experience. That war, and the disastrous consequences it unleashed, was predicated on a simple principle (which you appear to endorse) 'My country, right or wrong'. Its accompanying traits of Chauvinism, Jingoism, Yah-Boo, we are the greatest, politics are morally unsupportable, leaving no avenue for examination and/or criticism of National policy. Hitler and his henchmen (and women) thrived because of it.
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history will be DOOMED to repeat them" ...aphorism?- maybe ... accurate? - most definitely!