How’s this for an opening sentence:

EARLY Sunday morning, the US Navy lost its nerve and guaranteed that American sailors will die at Iranian hands in the future.

There’s more, as Peters analyzes our scrape on the seas with the Iranians last week and excoriates the politicization of our intelligence and military in service of appeasing the mullahs. He writes:

On Sunday, the Iranians tested us. We failed. They’ll probe us again. And every time we fail to react decisively, we raise the number of future US casualties.
Remember the USS Cole? You bet the Iranians do. They plan to better that attack by an order of magnitude.

The rest of the column, from the New York Post, is here.