POLITICS is a field that leaves plenty of space for anyone to commit evil. Those who swear to take an ethical stance in politics should prepare themselves for ridicule.

In 1945, not long after Hitler's brutality and the obliteration of Hiroshima by the American atomic bomb, political scientist Hans Morgenthau concluded, "No ivory tower is remote enough to offer protection against the guilt in which the actor and the bystander, the oppressor and th