Call me an optimist, but I doubt that. The lesser of two evils, yes, but good? No. Add in a bit of "if I do not let it happen, I'll be voted out and somebody else will order it" (it's a rare politician who dares to tell the public that, unfortunately, there's little that can be done to fix a problem) and "it's better that a good guy like me minimizes the amount of badness than that someone truly evil does it", and we get where we are now.
