Come and Get Us!

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Come and Get Us!
Who says the world is against us? Slate's Christopher Hitchens interviews Hossein Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 45-year-old grandson, a Shiite cleric now living in Iraq because he finds the mad mullahs' Iranian theocracy too oppressive:

The best outcome, he thought, would be a very swift and immediate American invasion of Iran.

It hurt me somewhat to have to tell him that there was scant chance of deliverance coming by this means. He took the news pretty stoically (and I hardly think I was telling him anything he did not know). But I was thinking, wow, this is what happens if you live long enough. You'll hear the ayatollah's grandson saying, not even "Send in the Marines" but "Bring in the 82nd Airborne." I think it was the matter-of-factness of the reply that impressed me the most: He spoke as if talking of the obvious and the uncontroversial.

Not only in Iraq but in Iran as well, Hitchens opines, "the United States has also managed to get on the right side of history, as we used to say."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089329/