Tucker Carlson hates war, but killing is another matter

Clever stuff. In Carlson’s formulation, then, any criticism of Trump’s diplomacy equates to advocacy of a nightmare war with North Korea. It’s the sort of attack that you might expect from … a Trump foreign policy adviser!

Distinctions are everything when considering the oeuvre of Tucker Carlson. He may be antiwar, but not quite anti-killing. In a Sunday morning chat with the folks at “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Carlson was asked about the prudence of hanging out with a dictator with a despicable record on human rights.

“I mean, there’s no defending the North Korean regime, which is a monstrous regime. It’s the last really Stalinist regime in the world. It’s a disgusting place, obviously, so there’s no defending it,” said Carlson, who commonly says he’s not defending the people he’s defending. “On the other hand, you’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people, not on the scale the North Koreans do, but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number we’re closely allied with. So, I’m not a relativist or anything, but it’s important to be honest about that. And it’s not necessarily a choice between the evil people and the great people. It’s a choice most of the time between the bad people and the worst people.”