Tucker Carlson

And the first is, why would you ever go into a war with another country when you don't have aligned interests, when you don't have the same goals?

Israel is a whole separate goal from ours.

Israel would like to leave Iran, a husk, a civil war between various ethnic groups, just a bleeding wound, and therefore permanently weakened.

They don't want a coherent nation state.

in Iran because that wouldn't help them.

The United States, of course, doesn't want that because you can't open the Straits of Hormuz unless you have someone in charge of the territory of Iran because then pirates will close it.

Anyone with mines or drones can close the strait.

You need a central government in Tehran to keep the strait open.

And the United States, being, of course, subject to international commodity prices like everybody else, the big economy, doesn't want that.

Doesn't want the refugee crisis in Europe and the U.S.

that will inevitably result if Israel gets its way.

The United States would end there with goals that weren't exactly clear.

I don't know, somehow ending the nuclear program because it's such a threat, even though U.S.

intelligence had repeatedly concluded that it was not an imminent threat.

They didn't have a nuclear weapon.

They didn't have ICBMs.

It just didn't exist.

It's the WMD story from 2002, Redux.

But the idea was to apparently push, brush them back a little bit and let them know that you can't do anything crazy in the region.

That's not Israel's goal.