have chiefly sought to limit a public relations disaster --- the dissemination of the photographs --- rather than deal with the complex crimes of leadership and of policy revealed by the pictures. There was, first of all, the displacement of the reality onto the photographs themselves. The administration's initial response was to say that the president was shocked and disgusted by the photographs --as if the fault or horror lay in the images, not in what they depict. There was also the avoidance…
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