There's something really eerie about this observation - perhaps one of the most astute Obama has ever made: Of course, there have been plenty of cases througho

There's something really eerie about this observation - perhaps one of the most astute Obama has ever made: Of course, there have been plenty of cases throughout history of populations descending into epidemics of mass violence -- at much larger scales, even -- but usually they've been what we call "pogroms", based an ethnic or religious hatred, or simple rage provoked by some particular incident. But (mostly) apolitical, color-blind, religion- and everything else-blind violence -- with nothing in common in the way of a motivation, other than for the sheer spectacle of it -- I'm not sure if there have been any parallels in history, on any significant scale, at all.