Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has named a prominent neoconservative who has advocated for the overthrow of the Iranian government to be the new counselor of the State Department. The official, Eliot Cohen, had been described as “the most influential neoconservative in academe.” Two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Cohen advocated for going after Iran. He wrote in The Wall Street Journal: “The overthrow of the first theocratic revolutionary Muslim state and its replacement by a moderate or secular government, however, would be no less important a victory in this war than the annihilation of bin Laden.” Eliot Cohen has also described the so-called war on terrorism as World War Four.