is this nationalistic pride that condemns us to wars...

Napoleon: GIVE ME EUROPE!...ALL OF IT!
Europeans: sure...would you like fries with that?


Hitler: THE ARYAN'S ARE THE MASTER RACE.
Czech: cool!
Polish: OK!
French: No problem!
Russian: Fine!
etc, etc: Sure thing, boss!

Nationalistic pride can be a two edged sword, when you think that your own country is better than another country it can lead you to condemn other people for feeling exactly the same nationalistic pride that you are feeling.

eg. Americans: Somebody dared to attack us. We feel hard done by. We are AMERICANS! we have nationalistic pride! and will defend our nation by removing another countries leader and means of attack. The Iraqi people will thank us.

Iraqi's: Somebody is daring to attack us!. We also feel nationalistic pride, and if a foreign army is going to invade our soveriegn state it will be over our rotting corpse's.

Americans: ok!Because OUR cause is the just and righteous one and yours is evil.

Iraqi's:No it is you who imposed the sanctions on us and we cant feed our children anymore. You are evil!

Americans: No! You are making chemical weapons and giving terrorist weapons of mass d!You are evil!

Iraqi's: You are just as evil, funding brutal dictators and evil regimes in the middle-east!

etc etc etc....You get the point now?