America should “behave with honor” and admit mistakes whenever it is in the wrong, the journalist has said
The US is “not worth fighting for” if it was behind the attack on an Iranian school that killed more than 160 people but refuses to admit responsibility, American journalist Tucker Carlson has said. Speaking during a podcast on his YouTube channel on Tuesday,
Carlson gave his take on the attack on the school in the southern city of Minab on February 28, the first day of massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Several investigations by American media outlets have concluded that the strike involved a US Tomahawk cruise missile. President Donald Trump has rejected the allegation, suggesting it was Iran that bombed the building.
Carlson argued that the US could occupy the higher moral ground over Iran only if it “behaves with honor.”“If innocents are killed – girls at a school… – you have to believe that it was accidental and you have to say out loud that was wrong.”
He urged a full investigation into the matter to confirm that the attack was indeed a “tragic mistake,” pointing to the school’s location next to an Iranian military compound and noting it was apparently the institution of choice for officers’ children.
Open admission of the mistake would allow the US to keep its honor, Carlson continued. “Because if you wake up in the morning and you’re living in the kind of country that thinks it’s okay to kill not simply military officers but their daughters, that country is not worth fighting for.”
A New York Times analysis on Tuesday suggested that popular support for the Iran war is the lowest compared to other US military involvements abroad, starting from World War II. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in early March indicated that only one in four Americans approves of the US-Israeli attack on Iran.
Trump, however, has dismissed the polling, saying he has “to do the right thing” and not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons – something Tehran consistently said it has no plan to do.
Carlson, who previously was generally supportive of Trump’s policies, has condemned the Iran war as “absolutely disgusting and evil.” In response, Trump claimed that the journalist “has lost his way” and is not really part of the MAGA movement.
