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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer when he claimed that unlike Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” and then dug himself deeper in his attempts to recover from the gaffe. His comments seem to have been a series of fumbles rather than intentional Holocaust denial; still, they did little to on Syria after last week’s airstrike. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis among Syrians continues. —but his refugee policy is likely to make things worse. In Moscow,.

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