TOM MAGUIRE: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Sorties. “I haven’t seen images of slaughter and mass graves from Syria. Sure, there are eyewitness reports of government violence, but until CNN provides video rubbing it in Obama’s face, it’s not a political reality.”

As Neal Stephenson once wrote, “The ability to think rationally is pretty rare, even in prestigious universities. We’re in the TV age now, and people think by linking pictures in their brains.”