Photos: Inside the Lisbon NATO Summit

There are many images available from today's NATO Summit in Lisbon. I have used several in previous posts. This is a series that I find interesting and decided to share. The principals, as if they needed to be identified, are British PM David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, and, of course, the star of the show, Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State upon whom AP has today bestowed a cabinet! (But that is another story - see caption).

It looks, at first blush, like Mme. Secretary has gotten herself into yet another diplomatic entanglement here!


From another camera angle, however, we see that this is not the case.


Things begin in a jovial fashion.



And then the business of nations commences. It looks a lot like mid-term exams.




I particularly like this one in the exam context. Cameron looks like he is wondering what the question means. Hillary is writing enough to fill two blue books at least, and Obama is trying to see her answer! "What's she writing? Does she actually know all that?"


Well, to quote Chris Matthews at the end of her confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "I've never seen somebody know so much!" Yes, she does know!