t’s Reviews > Regarding the Pain of Others > Status Update

"With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence."

"... it remains as true as ever that most people will not question the rationalizations offered by their government for starting or continuing a war. It takes some very peculiar circumstances for a war to become genuinely unpopular. (The prospect of being killed is not necessarily one of them.)"