Death Comes in Three
Someone once said that death comes in three.
First there was al-Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden in the spring. Shortly before Halloween, another treat: Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi met his maker. Now word comes that Kim Jong Il of North Korea has joined the pantheon of evil somewhere in the fog just around the bend.
If only Christopher Hitchens were alive to opine on the end of another lunatic despot. Hitchens’ death last week marked the end of the last great iconoclast of the twentieth century.
Only he could eloquently write and speak on the significance of this moment, where three people who have flirted with the dark side of man’s pursuit ultimately realized their immortality exists only in their own delusions–and the delusions of their disciples.
