Satan tempts Jesus by offering him dominion over all he sees—the chance to defeat the Roman enemy—if only Jesus will accept, as one theologian puts it, “the temptation to do evil that good may come; to justify the illegitimacy of the means by the greatness of the end.” Haywood Hansell sided with Jesus on that question: you should never do evil so that good may come. But LeMay would have thought long and hard about going with Satan. He would have accepted the illegitimate means if they led to what he considered a swift and more advantageous end.
