Some people love their homelands.
Others love their dogs.
Others love their wives.
Others love their religion.
Others love their food.
Others love their grog.
Others love all kinds of materialistic things.
Etcetera.

Of course, the above options are not mutually exclusive.

However, some people love to hate. That's why some of them strike, and strike again!

Striking back is oftentimes the only viable solution to deal with that kind of hateful aggressor.

A good reply and the last sentence was a good round up.

I should say I'm not patriotic-nothing much left to be patriotic about. But this song was connected in my mind with the empire strikes back (your post) and all has certain memories for me.. But coming back to today- you are right The Empire did strike back- and it is very good at that- it's the combination and make up of the whole race.