In a hundred years, when art history students are racking their brains for an intelligent short answer response to the Final Exam question, "Slide 21: David Wilson's Eye of the Beholder. In the context of the American political pendulum's extreme swing toward cowboy diplomacy in the early Twenty-first Century, was this photographer expressing an opinion? Be specific," who may say but that the person who answers correctly writes something like this, "I think he was likely responding to all the flag waving of his time, but I don't think he was expressing a definite opinion so much as trying to create a compelling image that might mean different things to different people. Is that America's sinister eye watching everyone else in the world, or is that a reflection of the world's eye on the U.S.? The silhouette in the iris is a haunting reminder that it is not only the US that watches the world, but the viewer of the image him/herself who also watches the U.S. Or perhaps the silhouette is that of a Higher Power, one who also watches and judges. Or is it even an American flag at all?"