Tucker Carlson

Is it a good idea for us?

That's the debate that never took place.

And it didn't take place because almost from the beginning, the people who wanted regime change war with Iran made the debate instead about why do you hate the Jews?

You're a Nazi.

And of course, that was never what the debate was about because Israel, the nation of Israel, the one with the parliament, the Knesset, and the military, the IDF, and lots of people and tech firms, and it's not, by the way, exclusively Jewish, and it isn't actually the same as all Jews in the world at all.

And in fact, there are a lot of Jews around the world who have mixed feelings about Israel or certainly don't want a regime change war in Iran.

But the people who do want that in the United States...

Israel's proxies in the United States, its defenders, its professional defenders in the U.S., immediately made the debate about the Jews.

It wasn't the anti-Semites who did that, actually.

It was the defenders of Israel in the United States, not all of whom are Jewish, to be clear.

They're the ones who made the debate from the first day, why do you hate the Jews?

And so for those who were hesitant to get into another regime change war, it's intimidating because you're happy to have

a debate any time of day about what's in the interest of the United States, when should we project military force, what can we learn from the last 25 years, et cetera, et cetera, and you'd probably win that debate because there's no evidence that any regime change war we've engaged in in the past couple of generations has helped us.

Zero evidence.

And everyone kind of knows that, including the president of the United States.

But if you make it a debate about why do you hate the Jews, then most people are going to opt out because they don't want to deal with it.

Most of them don't hate the Jews, you hope.

No evidence that they do.

But nobody wants to be tarred as a bigot.

And so very few people pushed back, very few.