Of course it's OK.
We
are the good guys.
Not pointing any fingers at anyone on this thread
and not leaping on you.
I'm continually exasperated by Americans who endlessly wring their hands over past national sins, and wax philosophical about how criticisms of other nations' modern misdeeds need to be tempered with chest-beating monologues about US/British/western colonial and imperialistic stains on the world.
We are competing with China and other similarly nasty regimes economically, politically, and ideologically. It's not quite a zero sum game, but just about every win in their column is a loss in ours.
I wish people would be less wishy washy and pick a side.