von Braun in the Rainbow

[Michael Bailey]

Monte Davis wrote:
>Dyson had personal experience of how people painted themselves into
>impossible moral corners in WWII

A relative of mine from a senior generation (whose career was
with Dow Chemical, so he was no stranger to impossible moral corners)
used to defuse arguments by insisting people define their terms.

I'm not about to do that, but I just wondered - having
looked at the article excerpt without myself feeling pain...

a) -- what is there about the review that makes it insufferable?
What is the moral line it crosses'; how; and where?

b) --- why would the mere characterization of the review
as insufferable discomfit Monte so greatly as to
denigrate a "class which includes himself" (ie P-Listers)
What is the great offense in finding a review insufferable?
Why could Rich's position not be refuted overwhelmingly
without ad hominem attack,
especially after he disavowed ad hominem scorn
for the review's author?