Are you pleased that the now dead Ayatollah Khomeini, the older Hamani, is no longer ruling Iran?

It's a good question. I don't take pleasure in killing anyone. I don't think you should have illegally killed the leader, a foreign leader of a nation, who's also, by the way, a spiritual leader to millions of Shia Muslims around the world.

Brilliantly deflected, my actual question was,

are you pleased that he's no longer ruling Iran?

It's a loaded question because his son is leading the country,

so am I pleased with that? No.

You must therefore, de facto, be pleased that the dead Ayatollah is no longer ruling the country.

Am I pleased he's not ruling the country?

It's a question in vacuum. It's a yes or no. You either are or you not? I'm... For those who instinctively oppose war on the grounds of economic cost, and far more importantly the cost in human lives, there was a lot to be frustrated about right now. The case for war to the extent that it been made at all has shifted repeatedly. It's hard to imagine an abrupt end with the mission accomplished when the mission is undefined. It's hard to see how Iranian protesters or the wider region will benefit at all from regime change when at this point they haven't even changed the Ayatollah's name. And President Trump has yet to explain

what exactly happened to his firm stance against war. If his legacy to finding gamble and Iran

does not pay off, if the new Iran is much like the old Iran, his successors could pay a huge

political price. But just as the president has not made his case from the outset, giving him

a clear yardstick to measure his war against, the opposition has been incoherent too.

Senior Democrats are mostly opposing the war on the grounds of process.

They surely should have come to Congress, which no US president has bothered to do since World War II.

They say they're opposed to wars of choice, but they're very happy the Ayatollah was killed.

They're against Trump, but they don't rule out supporting more spending for his war.

It looks a lot like they're coming down with Keir-Stama syndrome, unclear, ever-changing,

and politically disastrous. Well, I'm joined now by Medi Hassan, editor-in-chief of Zateo News.

Medi, welcome back to Uncensored.

It's probably most useful to my viewers

to slightly play devil's advocate in this interview,

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