The Evil That Men Praise
I was reading about the impending execution of the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, and it reminded me of something and someone I had not thought about for a long, long time; the execution of an even deadlier terrorist twenty-five years earlier. Ask people under 40 if they know the name Timothy McVeigh, and chances are you will get more than a few shoulder shrugs. This isn’t by accident or any lack of interest on the part of Gen Z. This was intended. McVeigh was, as those over 40 will remember, the mastermind behind the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 167 people and injured more than 600 others. To this day, McVeigh’s act remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States. Because there was a daycare center on the second floor of the building, 19 children were among the dead. McVeigh was arrested shortly after the bombing throug...