The Tucker Carlsons Who Want to Make America Last Again

I want to begin by saying something bold and sincere: Tom Basile deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his recent report on Iran on Newsmax. Rarely have I heard such a comprehensive, kaleidoscopic assessment of just how much American blood Iran has spilled since Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in 1979. His report lays bare a truth that far too many Americans have forgotten or ignored—Iran has been waging a proxy war against the United States for over four decades, and we have yet to meaningfully respond. The blood of our murdered marines cries out from Beirut, the memory of our Air Force personnel rings from the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the lost lives of our diplomatic personnel calls forth from the Beirut American Embassy, and 700 American soldiers murdered in Iraq demands vengeance. All were murdered by Iran.

In 1983, Iran orchestrated the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American service members in a single, monstrous attack. What was the American response? Nothing. Not retribution, not pressure, not a counter-strike. Even President Ronald Reagan, a man I deeply admire for his leadership and vision, pulled American forces out of Lebanon, sending a message that terrorism works. Even under Regan, America showed cowardice rather than courage, consigning the lost lives of our soldiers to the dustbin of history. And so, Iran struck again, bombing the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that very same year. The violence continued, and America looked away.

This isn’t hyperbole. These aren’t vague accusations. This is documented fact. The Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, and American intelligence agencies have confirmed Iran’s hand in the deaths of countless  American servicemen and women. And yet, despite our unrivaled military power, we have treated Iran with kid gloves. We have allowed our enemies to kill us with impunity.

To every American reading this piece, I say with a full heart and a burning conscience: the blood of our Marines, our diplomats, and our troops demands retribution. What do we have a military for if not to defend the lives of our service members, America’s greatest heroes? Why do we spend hundreds of billions annually on defense if we will not use our might to stop those who slaughter our people?

Those of you who are MAGA and say, like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Charlie Kirk America should not be involved in foreign wars, or forever war, these are not foreign wars. These are Americans who were hunted down and killed by Iran. And the only reason this is a “forever war” is because America has never stopped and destroyed Iran’s military offensive capability, and especially the IRGC, the Iranian revolutionary Guard Corps, an army of terrorists that exists not to protect the Irania people to protect its corrupt regime.

Let’s be clear: this is not just about Israel. Israel is certainly in the crosshairs of the Iranian regime, but that is not the root of their hatred. Iran sees Israel as a Western implant—an American proxy in the heart of the Middle East. They hate Israel for the same reasons they hate America: because of our freedoms, our democratic ideals, our support for women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and religious pluralism. Iran despises openness, and it sees the United States and Israel as existential threats to its autocratic Islamist theocracy.

The Islamic Republic is not merely an adversarial nation. It is a totalitarian regime that murders its own people for showing a strand of hair, that hangs gay men from cranes in public squares, and that has become the primary financier and weapons supplier of groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. These groups do not merely destabilize the Middle East—they are Iran’s tools to export chaos, undermine global order, and murder Americans.

And this brings me to President Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, I say this to you with great respect and admiration: you are one of the strongest presidents America has ever had. You demonstrated unprecedented courage in withdrawing from the catastrophic Iran nuclear deal, in moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and in brokering the historic Abraham Accords. You have stood up for American sovereignty and shown that strength and peace can coexist.

But now, another moment of moral clarity is upon us. And history is calling.

There was a time, nearly 80 years ago, when two great men—Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt—came together to stop fascism in its tracks. Today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to take on Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime, the modern-day equivalent of Nazi tyranny. But Israel cannot do it alone. Like Churchill, Netanyahu needs a partner.

Israel lacks the 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs and the B-2 stealth bombers needed to reach and destroy Iran’s fortified nuclear facilities, like the underground Fordow site where enriched uranium is being stockpiled. Fordow is right outside the ancient Iranian capital of Isfahan, where my father was born and where my exiled Jewosh family lived for a millennia. The United States has the capability to restore Isfahan to what it truly is, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most beautiful cities in the world, not a place where a second Holocaust should be planned and from where it should be executed

Mr. President, just as Roosevelt stood by Churchill, it is time for you to stand by Netanyahu.

And to my fellow conservatives, particularly those in the MAGA movement—those who, like me, love America with every fiber of their being—I say this: this is the real test of “America First.” If we truly put America first, then we must protect American lives. We must avenge our fallen. We must stop a regime that has killed over 1,100 of our troops, plotted to assassinate a sitting president, and continues to pose a nuclear threat to our cities.

It is therefore deeply disturbing to hear some within the MAGA movement—people like Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene—speaking out against regime change in Iran as though removing a terrorist dictatorship were a dangerous or destabilizing idea. Let’s be clear: this isn’t America First. It’s America Last.

Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA, has gone so far as to warn that taking out the Iranian regime would cause “catastrophe.” Really? This is a regime that tortures and murders women for exposing their hair. A regime that hangs gay men from cranes in city squares and stoned women to death. The only catastrophe would be this murderous regime’s continuation. A regime that trains child soldiers and funds global terror. To preserve that regime is to abandon every principle America stands for.

Tucker Carlson, who once stood for strength and moral clarity, now echoes appeasement. His recent commentary has moved from skepticism of foreign intervention to something far darker—a rationalization of tyranny. The man who once spoke up for victims of global oppression now seems more concerned with “not provoking Iran” than with defending American lives.

And then there’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, who proudly carries the America First banner but is quick to oppose any meaningful response to Iranian aggression. How is it “America First” to excuse a regime that murdered over 1,100 of our soldiers? That plotted to assassinate our president? That is actively developing nuclear weapons and threatening to annihilate the very country she claims to defend?

Let me remind you what happens when evil is not confronted. World War II dragged on for years until we summoned – and cost the lives of 450,000 American soldiers – until we summoned the will to defeat our enemies entirely. We dropped bombs on Berlin and Dresden, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As horrifying as those actions were, they ended the war. Today, Germany and Japan are thriving democracies and among our closest allies. Peace follows victory—not appeasement.

We have never defeated nor seriously confronted the Islamic Republic of Iran. When in 1979 the translated our Embassy and too our diplomats hostage, our weakest President of modern times, Jimmy Carter was frozen into immobility. And that is why the war goes on. That is why American blood continues to be spilled. That is why Hamas and Hezbollah grow stronger. That is why Israel must live under a perpetual threat of annihilation.

To those who say “no more wars,” I agree. But wars only end when the enemy and evil is crushed—not when we retreat. The so-called “forever wars” exist because we never finished them. We left potent and evil enemies on the battlefield, and they regrouped, rearmed, and returned. Iran is the beating heart of that threat.

This regime doesn’t just hate Israel. It doesn’t just hate America. It hates human dignity. It hates freedom. And it has made it clear that it will not stop until the “Great Satan”—America—is brought to its knees.

Are we really prepared to wait for a nuclear device to be smuggled into a suitcase and detonated in New York or Los Angeles or Washington, D.C.? Do we really want to be the generation that saw the threat and looked away?

To my fellow Americans, to our leaders, to the president: the time for hesitation is over. The time for moral clarity is now. The Iranian regime must be dismantled, its nuclear ambitions destroyed, and its reign of terror ended.

History will remember who stood up and who stayed silent. It will remember whether we protected our troops or left their blood unavenged. And it will remember whether we chose strength—or surrendered to fear.

The Iranian regime is evil. It has killed Americans. It threatens our future. It must fall.