These are the last words said by General Carrington, the villain of this serial, before he is taken away into custody. Villain is perhaps too harsh a word, given that he is very misguided, and did everything in this story for the wrong reason. He was placed in a scenario where he made first contact with an alien race. They killed one of his crewmembers and so he swore revenge, believeing them to be a hostile force. He captured some of them and used them for his own purposes, hoping to reveal to the world that these creatures are dangerous, and to implore for help in dealing with them, by destroying them all completely.
But he was wrong. The aliens came in peace. They were unaware of the fact that when they touched people, they caused them to die. Carrington was catastrophically misguided, seeking war instead of a peacful solution. In this regard, the story makes for a perfect duo with Doctor Who and the Silurians. The conclusion of both stories is about the misguided nature of humanity, how we can occasionally jump to conclusions and cause widespread destruction. But where Silurians ended with the Brigadier doing the wrong thing, this time it is quite clearly averted. Everyone from UNIT soldiers to Carrington's henchmen are standing against him. Because they all realise what harm they could do, and that sometimes peace is the only option.
But in response to Carrington's question, he was somewhat in the right. It's not hard to ser how he came to the conclusions that he did, and it's quite clear that he began to realise his mistakes at the end of the serial. But the fact still remains that it wasn't an alien species that caused all of the havoc this serial. It was a misguided man.
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