This article really disturbs me. I know its been eight hundred years, but the notion that the Smithsonian Institution is celebrating a tribute to Genghis Khan just strikes me as just being wrong. The description of the exhibit makes it seem like he was just another nationalist leader with a militaristic bent, an East Asian Napoleon, not the thirteenth century version of Hitler. He was a genocidal madman who viewed raping and pillaging as a clever military tactic, and basically followed the policy that it was better to exterminate your enemy than conquer it. I guess in a few hundred years, the taxpayers will get to fund a Smithsonian tribute to Pol Pot.