Tucker Carlson

So the first mistake was lashing ourselves to another country with separate goals.

But more immediately, the mistake would be if you want to wrap this up with a ceasefire and a peace agreement, you would, of course, tell Israel to get on board because Israel is a tiny, insignificant country with an infinitesimally small population and economy that only exists because you protect it and pay for everything.

Israel is your client state.

This is like taking orders from your housekeeper, which you would never do.

Why would you do that if you had self-respect?

So the first thing you would do if you were sitting down to come to terms with your opponent, this big country, Iran, that you haven't been able to beat militarily, would be to tell Israel, hey, we're suing for peace.

We're going to get this done.

You knock it off.

But the US didn't do that.

This administration did not do that.

In fact, apparently, according to the Israelis, they never even consulted Benjamin Netanyahu.

They did not tell him that we were right in the cusp of ceasefire talks.

Why?

Because they were worried that he would do what he did with Operation Eternal Darkness, Operation Hell, and scuttle the whole thing by doing something crazy like bombing apartment buildings in Beirut, Lebanon.

So apparently getting Israel under control so the United States could save its economy and the lives of its troops was not even on the table.

Like the one thing we know we're not gonna do is tell the Israelis to behave.

And that's why there is in practical terms, in effect, if not name, no ceasefire right now.

The one that everybody in the United States desperately wants.

So the question is, and it is the question, unfortunately,

Why can't the United States get its proxy, its client state, its effectively its employee, Israel, under control?