What Will They Think of Next?

October 24, 2011

Why the crazy Iranian plot to pay Mexicans to kill the Saudi ambassador isn’t so implausible.
By Christopher Hitchens

There may conceivably be a reason to doubt the truth of the Obama administration’s claim that the “Quds Force” of the Islamic Republic of Iran went into the free market for murder in order to suborn the killing of the Saudi ambassador to the United States. But neither the apparently surreal nor the apparently flagrant nature of the thing would constitute such reasons.

Read More http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/10/why_the_crazy_iranian_plot_to_pay_mexicans_to_kill_the_saudi_amb.html

 
 
 

Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir