i tend to think people will live up – or down – to our expectations

by j8

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2004-04-30 08:14:00

Parent message is 642113
just a theory. if you expect this of them, does that change the way you saw that picture, and why this one picture revealed the true nature of the war – to you?


what if our expectations were that not only did the u.s. comply with the geneva convention but exceed it somehow?

i want peace. i want this war to be over. i want the u.s. to exit as gently and gracefully as possible. this action flies in the face of that desire and i’m extremely unhappy about it. i agree that justice needs to come, but i’d like to think that it will be dealt with true justice, not some simple public humiliation. that is simply feeding the same behavior i despise – IMO serving justice at a higher standard is not weak.



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