Kennedy had a job to do. It was as simple as that: to convince the Earth's population that a hapless race of sapient creatures living peacefully on a distant planet must be destroyed as a menace to the Earth
How do you justify genocide
Kennedy had a job to do. It was as simple as that. He was paid to do a job, and he did it.
His job was to convince the Earth's population that a hapless race of sapient creatures living peacefully on a distant planet must be destroyed as a menace to the Earth.
(First published 1958)