Will all the bad people please stand up

I wonder if there is any country whose members would say "We are a bad people; we do evil things." I suspect that, almost universally, across the globe, we all believe we stand for what is good, righteous, just.  But if the whole world is good, then goodness loses its meaning. Beliefs in our goodness  warm our hearts while blinding us to what we do. Seeing the discrepancy between who we believe we are and what we do can be painful. This comes at me as I listen to the U.S. Democratic convention while reading George Packer's article about Burma in the August 25 edition of the New Yorker. In the convention, speaker after speaker reminds us of how good we are. We eat that up. We love that about ourselves. Didn't the US invade Iraq to liberate an oppressed people from a murderous tyrant? That would have been good. Freedom is good. Democracy is good. On the other hand, Invasion for oil, for national interest, for reordering the Middle East? Practical maybe, but not good as in good people. Then there is Burma. First class tyrants, oppressors, murderers, pure greed, oppressed people yearning to be free, a beloved leader locked in house arrest. If ever there was a scenario calling for the dramatic entrance of the deliverers of goodness, justice, righteousness, and democracy, Burma is it. But then it's clear: it's not about goodness, is it?