Tucker Carlson

But we have been unable to have that conversation because...

The vested players in the whole economic chain coming from the United States Congress through the Pentagon and out to, well, the entire economy of Northern Virginia has discouraged it.

So we've continued to do the same thing the same way, except at a higher volume for a very long time.

And now we are seeing the results, which are embarrassing.

And we actually can tell ourselves we're the strongest military in the world.

And you want to be the strongest military in the world because that's great.

But if you are the strongest military in the world, why can't you force Iran to open the bottleneck at the end of the Persian Gulf and let vitally needed commodities out to the rest of the world, including you?

Like, if you're so powerful, why can't you get it done?

And so what we've learned is we're really not as powerful as we said we were and probably as we thought we were.

And that's bad for us, but it's also dangerous because it invites aggression.

We need to fix that by being honest about what just happened.

No more lying.

We should learn something from what is happening right now.

And that process will require the people who made bad decisions to be punished for them, not imprisoned or killed, but certainly humiliated because they deserve it.

When was the last time a public official was ever really humiliated?

Even the ones who get fired, get fired with like a statement like, we thank you for your service.

You're so great.

You're doing something more important.

How about you committed dereliction?

You did a terrible job.