There is no doubt that Scott would tell you today that the job in Iraq has to be finished. Scott felt very strongly about what had to be done in Iraq and fully supported it. I used to pity anyone who had a different opinion about Iraq than my brother.
Pity would be no more / If we did not make somebody poor; / And Mercy no more could be/ If all were as happy as we.
Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Physically, I couldn't fold myself into a gray, invisible bank clerk. I just thought, It's the most amazing part. It's a pity that I'm wrong for it.