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The Syria Situation: What Can a Picture Tell Us?

What do these pictures tell us, and what do they fail to tell us?
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The New York Timesnotes that we often see behind-the-scenes images emerge many years after leaders deliberate over affairs of national security. And yet, there is something revealing about seeing these images today nearly in real time. 

So what do these pictures tell us, and what do they fail to tell us?

(h/t New York Times)

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

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