Tucker Carlson, one of Fox News' biggest boosters of President Donald Trump, made an impassioned case against the airstrike that killed Iran’s top military leader, blasting Washington for ignoring "the big picture."
During his Friday night show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," the host decried the escalation of tensions with Iran sparked by the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
"No one in Washington is in the mood for big-picture questions right now," he lamented. "Questions like: Is Iran really the greatest threat we face? And who's actually benefiting from this? And why are we continuing to ignore the decline of our country in favor of jumping into another pointless quagmire, from which there's no obvious exit?"
A video of the comments was posted on Fox News.
"Instead, chest beaters like [GOP] Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska are making the usual warlike noises," he said.
Carlson largely avoided criticizing Trump directly, but besides lambasting Sasse, he singled out many of the administration's current and former national security hawks, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
"Gen. Soleimani is dead because he was an evil bastard who killed Americans," Carlson declared. "Does that make killing him simple? It is not. Nothing about life and certainly not killing is ever very simple and any politician who says otherwise is dumb or is lying."
He also blasted the airstrike as a move that defied ordinary Americans.
"As is so often the case, the preferences of actual Americans don't enter the equation at all," he said. "They are immaterial. In 2016, Donald Trump ran on a promise of fewer foreign adventures. He vowed instead to focus on our problems here at home, which are growing. Against the odds, he won that election, probably because of that promise."
Yet, he said, Washington has been itching to go to war, and now "they may have finally gotten it."
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