By R. Cort Kirkwood (the New American)
Israel-First podcaster Ben Shapiro is urging President Trump to wage total war on Iran, which would necessarily require ground troops and would likely end with thousands of Americans wounded or dead.
The neoconservative commentator’s latest call for a war in which he will not be a combatant comes about a year after he said opponents who worry about ground troops in the war are “lying.” Now, he says, “we” Americans are “willing” to sustain mass casualties.
Shapiro’s commentary, broadcast yesterday, provoked a sharp response from Tucker Carlson, who called Shapiro a “little freak” who won’t risk his life in the war he advocates. Shapiro responded with a vile slur.
Before yesterday’s podcast, Shapiro had assured viewers that Americans would not fight on the ground in Iran. In fact, Shapiro said, only liars would say such a thing.
“You shouldn’t take into account the things that they say will happen that do not even come close to happening,” Shapiro warned.
Indeed, “no one’s talking about” a full-scale ground invasion or regime-change operation, he said:
And I want to point out again, people are lying to you about this. They are lying. Many of them are lying because they believe this is what’s going to happen. You should take into account the things that they say will happen, that do not even come close to happening.
In fact, if war opponents were predicting a ground invasion, they weren’t lying. But Shapiro’s point was clear: President Trump would not commit ground troops in any unconstitutional war against Iran.
Yesterday, Shapiro not only changed his tune, but also advocated mass slaughter and destruction. That, of course, would involve ground troops.
Arguing that Americans are “confused and upset” about what seems to be a “stalemate,” Shapiro claimed that what Americans really “want is victory.”..
In other words, Trump must commit ground troops to the war because Americans are “willing to undergo those casualties.”
That’s doubtful. And Americans are not concerned about “winning” in Iran, which is impossible. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows a strong majority of those surveyed oppose the war: 60.1 percent oppose it, while just 37.4 percent support it.
Carlson quickly noted that the “we” who are “willing to undergo those casualties in pursuit of an end and a victory for America” does not include Shapiro. At 42 years old, Shapiro is eligible to enlist in the U.S. Army, which raised its enlistment age to a serendipitous 42. Indeed, when the Army did so in March, Shapiro was arguing that the war had to go on. But Shapiro did not enlist and instead fought the war from behind a microphone.
He “could go volunteer to fight the war himself, but of course he won’t,” Carlson wrote on X:
He’s got no interest in making any kind of personal sacrifice. None of them do. Israel’s finance minister bragged the other day that having American soldiers fight Netanyahu’s wars “is the best for us.” [Bezalel] Smotrich doesn’t want to die for Israel. Neither does Ben Shapiro. Dying for Israel is your job. You’ve got to wonder how people like this — liars without honor, wisdom or loyalty to the United States — wound up in positions of such profound influence throughout our society. How did Mark Levin get the president’s cell phone number?… It’s all so nuts, and ultimately suicidal.
Carlson wrote that Trump will follow Shapiro’s order for an invasion, “as he has consistently for months.”…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/shapiro-time-for-total-war-on-iran-mass-casualties-ok-carlson-shapiro-wont-join-the-fight/
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