Tucker Carlson: “The fact that they appear to be backing Delci Rodriguez not…”

“Not because I support the government, but because we have clear models in Iraq and Libya and a lot of Syria. It can be very hard to put those things back together again. And The fact that they appear to be backing Delci Rodriguez not because they love her, but because they're in favor of stability over chaos and her brother, and they're kind of keeping the structure in place but making sure it's pro American, that seems like a much wiser approach. That makes me calm down a little bit. Right? Yeah. The problem that everybody, the neoliberal and even some people on the right have is they don't understand that you needed a strong man like Saddam Hussein to keep all these religious sects together.” (03:09–03:27)

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