Tucker Carlson

They've done, and this is noted with real sadness, much better than anyone expected, including the Israelis, apparently.

No one saw this coming.

So how did this happen?

How did this primitive country that shoots protesters in the street and beats up women because they're women or whatever they were telling you on TV, how did that country chase away U.S.

aircraft carriers that aren't anywhere near the coast?

How did that country shoot down some of our most advanced aircraft, Warthog, Blackhawks, et cetera?

How'd they do that?

We have gotten as a society into a very bad and self-destructive habit of not allowing questions like that, honest questions about our own failures.

And the reason that's bad is because unless you understand what you did wrong and repent of it, promise not to do it again, you tend to keep doing it.

And yet in this country, for some reason, the reasons are pretty obvious,

We have allowed the people who make those mistakes to browbeat the rest of us into silence.

And whenever someone pipes up and says, well, wait a second, we're spending a trillion dollars a year on this military and we can't get our aircraft carriers within striking distance of the coast of Iran because why?

Shut up, Islamist.

Were you siding with Iran?

Well, no.

I'm siding with the United States.

But what's the answer?

We pay for this military.

We were told we had total dominance of the skies, but then they shoot down our aircraft.

Apparently a lot of them.