My Latest  January 8, 2007 RSS Feed Print   • Comment (1)  Here
is my Creators Syndicate column for this week, and here in the
Weekly Standard is my remembrance of the late Seymour Martin
Lipset.  Going After Iran?  Here is Ralph Peters's very
interesting take on the appointment of Adm. William Fallon as
Centcom commander. Hint: It's all about Iran:  Assigning a Navy
aviator and combat veteran to oversee our military operations in
the Persian Gulf makes perfect sense when seen as a preparatory
step for striking Iran's nuclear-weapons facilities—if that
becomes necessary. While the Air Force would deliver the
heaviest tonnage of ordnance in a campaign to frustrate Tehran's
quest for nukes, the toughest strategic missions would fall to
our Navy. Iran would seek to retaliate asymmetrically by
attacking oil platforms and tankers, closing the Strait of
Hormuz—and trying to hit oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and
the Gulf emirates.  Only the U.S. Navy—hopefully, with Royal
Navy and Aussie vessels underway beside