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Alexander McArthy's avatar

Blowback is probably the best argument as to why its “better” Israel is the one attacking Iran. I kept wondering why Cruz didn’t make that point, but then he had a Freudian slip referring to Israel as “us” and now I think that may very well have been what Tucker was trying to expose all along.

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Paul Curtman's avatar

He could’ve definitely said the Israel’s attack of Iran’s nuclear weapons is blowback for all though “wipe Israel off the earth” rhetoric from Iran over the past several decades.

But instead, his approach sounded more like ‘God commands us to bless Israel and so we don’t need to know anything about Iran. We just need to bomb it.’

And that is a bad look for a senator of any stripe.

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Philip J. Sherman's avatar

Tucker is usually on point.

This isn't one of them.

And he stops listening and starting yelling.

Not good.

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Philip J. Sherman's avatar

But how does this question determine whether or not someone actually knows things about the country their talking about?

They are better questions that can help determine this.

Is not Tucker’s job to ask the right questions?

This wasn’t one of those.

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Paul Curtman's avatar

I think such a simple question exposes how little people actually know. There’s no doubt Ted Cruz knows a lot about Iran, but when we’re talking about war, how many people are there, their ethnic make up, has everything to do with how our actions might ignite newer, or different conflicts in the .

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Alexander McArthy's avatar

Blowback is probably the best argument as to why its “better” Israel is the one attacking Iran. I kept wondering why Cruz didn’t make that point, but then he had a Freudian slip referring to Israel as “us” and now I think that may very well have been what Tucker was trying to expose all along.

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