This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Gregory Coppley, defense and foreign affairs editor and publisher joins from his native Western

Australia and Perth, and we're looking at the Middle East right now a headline in London.

Telegraph reporting, White House drawing up plans for a revenge strike on

Iranian militia.

Subhead National Security spokesman pledges very consequential response to drone attack but appears to rule out

a direct assault on Iranian oil. The strike packages could be going out now, but what is to be done?

I mention that what we have here is a convergence of political

parties. There is no separation. As far as I can hear from Washington, the Congress,

both aislesles the White House and all of the

newspapers were in one direction strike back it reminds me of my youth the

Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964 when Linden-Baines Johnson was running for the

presidency for the first time and he permitted himself to be persuaded by the

Defense Department that American destroyers had been attacked

by the patrol boats of the North Vietnamese and therefore it was necessary to begin what became the bombing campaign and the invasion of

South Vietnam by up to 500,000 American troops in the tragedy of Vietnam.

I mentioned that because history can rhyme.

Gregory, a very good evening to you. Right now there's much speculation in

Washington about what will be effective.

We know that there have been eight strikes by US.

Air strikes, either aircraft launched or

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