Tucker Carlson Calls Out Ben Shapiro, Nikki Haley for Wanting to Send US Troops to Wars that Aren’t Ours to Fight

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Conservative media star Tucker Carlson criticized Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro and Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley for positions he said could potentially send more U.S. troops into the line of fire in foreign wars, saying their reckless warmongering endangers his children.

Carlson made the pointed remarks Tuesday during an interview with British podcaster Russell Brand.

“I’ve got four draft-age children, so if you’re playing recklessly, fast and loose with their lives, then I have a right to despise you,” he said. “And I do.”

The former Fox News star continued: “So if you’re Nikki Haley, who’s running for president, or Ben Shapiro or half the people I see on television casually mentioning the possibility of nuclear war or sending Americans to fight in the Middle East or in any way involving us in a war that has nothing to do with prosperity and peace at home — nothing, in other words, to do with us Americans — then I have a right to call you out and be really offended. Because it’s my family. They live here.”

Carlson said the irresponsible saber-rattling cavalierly being bandied about by armchair generals that could embroil his children in a war is not theoretical; it’s a realistic danger he draws the line at.

“It’s not a joke to me,” he said. “There’s nothing abstract about it. And that is the difference between what’s happening in the Middle East from what’s happening in Ukraine.”

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