Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson welcomed retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor to his program. He suggested that support from the U.S. in Israel could lead to war with Iran. The Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro took issue with the position.
During The Ben Shapiro Show Tuesday, the host argued that Carlson was being “fully disingenuous” in his positions, claiming that he was “looking for an excuse to jump right on the same moral equivalency bandwagon as the left”.
“There’s been this equation that’s now happened on the right where if you stand up to a terror power, the idea is that it somehow puts America in a position that is weaker,” Shapiro said. “Which, again, is a not right-wing position. That is not a conservative position. It’s never been a conservative position, so far as I’m aware. Peace through strength has been a conservative position for as long as I’ve been alive, certainly. This idea that you are heightening the chances of a world war if America actually flexes its muscles sometimes, it’s a bizarre one when what we know is precisely the opposite.”
Shapiro continued by discussing Carlson’s stances directly by name,
“There’s this ugly thing that’s been happening, Tucker does it a lot, in which he suggests that if you disagree with him on the tactic to keep the thing contained — he and I want the same thing: No war with Iran, no American involvement in this region of the world that amounts to American boots on the ground. We all want the same thing here,” posited Shapiro.
“But the idea is that if you think America should flex its muscles in order to push Hezbollah off the ball, for example, then this means that you actually want the war with Iran, which of course is really scurrilous. It is not true.”
The remarks from Ben Shapiro come after he criticized the former Fox News host earlier this month for his downplaying of atrocities happening in Israel. Shapiro accused Carlson of “minimizing” the attacks from Hamas in the country.
