January 22, 2006 What Would Jack Bauer Do? By Pat Buchanan Ex-President Palmer had saved Jack Bauer's life. Yet, the "military option" against Iran is the talk of the town. The Chinese wanted agent Bauer extradited to execute him for the killing of their Los Angeles consul, gunned down in a crossfire between Chinese security and Bauer's Counter-Terrorism Unit team that had penetrated the consulate on an espionage mission. Palmer, though out of office, conspired in a CTU scheme where Jack would appear dead, to the satisfaction of the duped Chinese, and be sent to Mexico with a fake identity....