America should “behave with honor” and admit mistakes whenever it is in the wrong, the journalist has said
The United States is “not worth fighting for” if it carried out the bombing of an Iranian school but refuses to admit responsibility, American journalist Tucker Carlson has said.
Speaking on his YouTube podcast on Tuesday, Carlson insisted that the country cannot claim the moral high ground if it avoids acknowledging civilian casualties. He was referring to a strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of large-scale US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Iranian reports said more than 160 people were killed.
Several investigations by American media outlets have suggested that the strike involved a US Tomahawk cruise missile. President Donald Trump has rejected the allegation and suggested Iran itself may have been responsible.
Carlson said the United States must “behave with honor” if it wants to maintain moral credibility, adding that if the schoolgirls were killed accidentally, Washington should publicly acknowledge it rather than deny involvement.
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.
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