Israel’s fight is the West’s fight

Putin pet poodle Tucker Carlson, whose ratings are higher on Russian TV than American, wrote on Friday that the U.S. should “drop Israel,” and “let them fight their own wars.”

Israel, our most important ally in the Mideast, has always fought its own wars. It has never requested American combat troops, just American munitions and money.

“If Israel wants to wage this war, it has every right to do so. It is a sovereign country,” Carlson wrote, “and it can do as it pleases, but not with America’s backing.”

Not with America’s backing. In short, he is saying it’s Israel’s war, it’s not America’s war. Which is lower — his morality or his memory?

I guess he doesn’t remember the weekly “Death to America” rallies in Tehran, nor read that the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have fired on American naval forces.

Not with America’s backing.

Is he so out of the loop that he doesn’t know Iran is the world leader in support of terror — Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. All enemies of the West, where Carlson and his family live. But it’s not their fight. 

As in the past, Israel will ask its allies for arms and help with missile defense, but will never ask for troops.

You have to be particularly thick to not understand that Israel’s fight is America’s fight. It is the West’s fight.

Carlson is not alone. I’m sure there are other isolationist quislings among the MAGA Right. The same cranks who kvetch about money we have sent to Ukraine, another nation fighting an American enemy. 

But not Carlson’s enemy. He has a long history of french kissing Putin’s ass. 

Just to be even-handed, is Carlson any less morally bankrupt than failed VP candidate and Sinophile Tim Walz, speaking before the far-left Center for American Progress, who called China a “moral authority” that could mediate disputes?

The nation that mowed down 10,000 civilians in Tiananmen Square. 

I can picture Uyghurs and Tibetans high-fiving Walz.

Not.