The Dangerous Power of American Sunday School Pseudo-History

Eye-rack. Eye-ran. And a visit to Armageddon.

The largest buildup of American firepower in one place since 2003, 40 to 50 percent of the nation’s deployable air power, is clustered around Iran right now. And the Washington Post reports the Pentagon can’t figure out what to do with an additional half a trillion dollars Secretary Kegseth has acquired from American taxpayers.

What is going on?

I never was a Tucker Carlson fan. Preppy twang, platforming a Hitler stan, Neanderthal views on women and men - although I am neutral on ball-tanning. But since Fox turfed him out he seems to have hit his stride with courageous hardball interviews of performative Christian warmongers. He exposed Ted Cruz’s ignorance about Iran, whose destruction the Texas Senator has been cheerleading for a decade.

Last week, Carlson sat down with Trump’s Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, and for two hours challenged our man in Jerusalem’s Bible Belt pseudo-history of the Middle East. To his credit Huckabee did not flee, even though occasionally in visible panic as he explained American policy with fifth century B.C.E. legends.