Laughlin gave a similar opinion.

I swear I spent the night in searching every nook and corner of my mind and I was of the same opinion the next morning.

There was nothing to do then but the most unwelcome double duty: (1) Of continuing to carry out instructions, at every step making a bad situation worse and running the risk of a rupture (which would be the only great crime that now remains uncommitted in the world); and (2) of trying to persuade our own Government that this method was the wrong method to pursue.

I know it is not my business to make policies, but I conceive it to be my business to report when they fail or succeed.

Now if I were commanded to look throughout the whole universe for the most unwelcome task a man may have, I think I should select this.