Former Senator Bob Kerrey

Former Senator Bob Kerrey had an article at the Wall Street Journal on May 22, 2007.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010107 Senator Kerrey advocates the use of force to spread democracy in Iraq.

Mr. Kerrey lost part of a leg in Vietnam as a leader of a SEAL unit. He also won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Over 2000 years ago, Demosthenes said: "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

In Senator Kerrey's biography he admitted some role in the killings of 21 innocents in a village in Vietnam. The Vietnamese have charged him with war crimes.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/kerr-j06.shtml

Senator Kerrey was using force in Vietnam to "do good". Now he is advocating the use of force in Iraq to "do good". Socialists, communists, and fascists all advocate the use of force to do good. There has been more deaths and horrors committed in the name of doing good than one can imagine. Niccolo Machiavelli said it best, "Human beings are by nature not good; they are concerned with self preservation".

We kill for the same reasons wild animals kill; food, territory, mating, and self preservation. Unlike wild animals, humans have developed a language and a conscience. We use words like; honor, doing good, and patriotism to salve our conscience.

"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people.... It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.... Something is terribly wrong in the procedure, somewhere. What is it? The means is the power of the collective; and the premise is that ‘good’ is collective. The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.” -Isabel Paterson, "The Humanitarian with the Guillotine."

Charles Tolleson