If county-western singer Hank Williams Jr. had only thought of a dictator other than Hitler to compare with President Barack Obama, he might still be performing the opening song on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.”
He might’ve gotten away with it had he evoked the ayatollah of Iran or Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan or Than Shwe, the former despot of Myanmar.
Most Americans don’t even have the faintest idea where Myanmar is. And they might easily confuse Than Shwe with a
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