tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post1103704038143183611..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Qian Xuesen, father of Chinese missile program and of JPL, dies at 98Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-49271044965458835152009-11-02T18:12:38.428-05:002009-11-02T18:12:38.428-05:00Once he returned home in 1955, he threw himself in...<i>Once he returned home in 1955, he threw himself into his research with what some saw as calculated revenge.<br /><br />"It was the stupidest thing this country ever did," former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball later said, according to Aviation Week. "He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go."</i><br /><br /><i>sigh</i> Only in America...what a country...<brgshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17953008291916883288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-67576799078887683562009-11-02T13:44:37.651-05:002009-11-02T13:44:37.651-05:00I'm as anti-Communist as anybody can be, but a...I'm as anti-Communist as anybody can be, but a thinking person as well. I was and am more and more appalled at the excesses of the McCarthy/J.Edgar era, and the lack of sufficient intelligence (both meanings of the word) to discern real Reds from the wrongly accused or even the superficial sympathizers from the actually dangerous.Mr.GSDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959652442104836621noreply@blogger.com