Podcast
Tucker Carlson Responds to Israel’s War on Iran
The Tucker Carlson Show
- Netanyahu Pushed The War Not U.S. Strategy
- Tucker Carlson asserts the war with Iran started because Benjamin Netanyahu demanded it, not because it served U.S. national security.
- He points to Netanyahu’s repeated White House visits and public statements admitting regime change in Iran was the goal, framing it as Israel’s war. Transcript: Tucker Carlson First, why did this happen? Now, in this case, there’s a really simple answer. This happened because Israel wanted it to happen. This is Israel’s war. This is not the United States’ war. This war is not being waged on behalf of American national security objectives to make the United States safer or richer. This war is not actually even about weapons mass destruction, nukes, chem bio. No, this war is waged purely because Israel wanted it to be waged. Why say that out loud this early in the conflict? Isn’t that dispiriting for, say, American troops fighting this war? Yes, it is. And we thought a lot about whether it was wise or decent even to say something like that out loud and have decided that it is for the following reason. First, because the truth is always the only basis for wise decision making. When you lie to yourself or you lie to your people, you not only commit, well, a kind of moral crime by lying, but you also tend to hurt yourself. Hubris is the product of lies, for example. You can get way over your skis if you’re not honest with yourself and the people around you about what’s happening and why it’s happening. But long term, that is also true. In other words, it’s important to say why this war is happening because 50 years from now, people may not know. Your grandkids may learn that this war started because the Ayatollah showed up in Miami and started machine gunning people on a shopping mall. And so we responded, there was a kind of Iranian Pearl Harbor. You don’t know what the future will believe about the present. (Time 0:00:31)
- Decapitation Served Israel’s Regional Ambitions
- Carlson argues Israel sought regional hegemony and decapitation of Iran to eliminate constraints on its regional actions.
- He describes Iran as a large, resource-rich nation that Israel would prefer to render powerless rather than rebuild or occupy. Transcript: Tucker Carlson In other words, people who wanted war in Iran were softening up the public for it, were manipulating the U.S. Government in order to affect it, and were doing their very best to silence anyone who doubted its wisdom. A lot of the things we have seen in the recent past are, and now it’s very obvious, they were all designed to get us to where we are now, war with Iran on behalf of Israel. Now, just a caveat at the outset, just because the prime minister of Israel wanted a regime change war with Iran does not mean in any sense that it was a wise idea for Israel. It certainly wasn’t a good idea for the United States. No one really disputes that. But was it a good idea for the country or for the prime minister who advocated for it? No, probably not, actually. Just because we want something doesn’t mean it’s good for us. Sometimes when we get what we want most, we’re destroyed by it. (Time 0:05:20)