It is a bizarre historical coincidence. President Barack Obama announced to the world that Osama bin Laden was dead on May 1, the very same day that, 66 years earlier, the German government announced that Adolf Hitler was dead. It’s fitting that two of history’s great mass murderers share a day of death. Both embodied charisma and intelligence deployed in the service of evil–and both were utterly callous about the killing of innocents to further their causes. There are,…
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