Tucker Carlson slams US Republicans for war mongering

US commentator Tucker Carlson blasted senior Republicans for equating Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel with an assault on the US.

Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley said it was an attack on the US because “they hate us just as much”,  and concluded that Iran needs to be punished for it.

“Iran is behind them, finish them.”

Carlson said the threat to ‘finish Iran’—a country of almost 90 million people was the “tantrum of a child; ignorant, cocksure and bloodthirsty.”

Meanwhile, US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said the US should threaten to bomb Iranian oil refineries if Lebanese Hezbollah enters the fighting in Israel.

Carlson said Graham refused to think through what would happen if the US launched strikes on Iranian infrastructure. “He’s almost seventy years old and has no children, he doesn’t care.”