Since we're now snagging up-to-no-good Qudsmen in Kurdistan, it should come as a non-shock that Ahmadinejad is threatening to pay the Great Satan back in its own coin. But I think all the hooplah over the Orientalist macho man flick 300 has got the disciples of Xerxes trying in the worst way to overcompenstae for their fey Hollywood rap:
“We’ve got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks,” he said. “Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis.”
I think we just found the only thing that'll get Gore Vidal gung-ho on foreign invasion.