First off, I apologize for the statement "for someone of your character". In hindsight it made me sound like a jackass. So, I'm going to edit it out after making this post.
For the record, I didn't take it as an insult. I (think) know what you meant.
Yep, our history makes any talk of "saving" corrupt places worthless, because A. we don't have the will to do it for the "right reasons" and even if we somehow did, the arguments against it because of that history would be more than valid and would probably stop us from doing it anyway. And B...well, I forget what B is as I'm a probably more drunk than I should be for discussing this logically in a way that wouldn't embarrass me later. I'll be back tonight to flesh out my thoughts in a more....sober way
(and thank Og for those little red squirrely lines underneath misspelled things!)