Von Braun

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/11/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Sorry, don't know what came over me.
>
> Germans who designed weapons were bad, bad men.
>
> Our WWII was a good, good war, because ends cannot be corrupted by means.
>
> Being asphyxiated and/or incinerated at home in an Axis city is incomparable
> to being asphyxiated and/or incinerated at the end of a train ride. As would
> be being promptly incinerated by the thermonuclear warheads of which we and
> the Russians currently have 36,400. Many of ours are on missiles that we
> were hornswoggled into building by a bad, bad man, but that's OK because we
> only built them so we'll never have to use them.
>
> Most of all, Our Beloved Author would never be so inconsiderate of our
> righteous comfort as to muddy these certainties.

"Manicheans [...] see two Rockets, good and evil [...] a good Rocket
to take us to the stars, an evil Rocket for the world's suicide, the
two perpetually in struggle." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 727)