Compound and I were discussing this, and by "discussing" I mean that he rambles while he's high on caffeine and walnut overload bars while I project my thoughts to him through cortical osmosis.
Basically we agree that the ending of # 41 is meant to suggest that both Fury AND Xavier are responsible for sending Wolvie. If we're to take Xavier to be morally ambiguous, then he has no guilt about it -- he just doesn't want to be *perceived* as the guilty party.
It's a "hawks and doves" thing -- that kind of mercilessness is *expected* from Fury, so this mutual strategic agreement of Xavier and Fury's is carried out in Fury's name.
But even if we were to be considerate and give Xavier the benefit of the doubt about his basic goodness, it's a sure thing that Xavier tacitly acknwoledges the strategic necessaity of that kind of action, regardless of whether he approves of it *ethically*.
Compound added however that: "I don't know -- I think Fury implicitly knows -- and allows -- Xavier to mess with his head, with the understanding that Xavier will alert him to potential mutant threats, which is why he's so casual about lines like "You'll be in my thoughts... Hopefully not literally."... Because he knows that Chuck *will* be."
