The chairman of the American Conservative Union is defending lethal airstrikes that killed scores of Iranian schoolgirls over the weekend, acknowledging they would still be alive if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked Iran — but arguing they would “be alive in a burqa.”
Matt Schlapp made the staggering comment during Wednesday’s episode of “Piers Morgan: Uncensored,” where discussion of the now-ongoing Iran war eventually turned to the airstrikes on a girls school that killed up to 175 people Saturday, mostly children under 12.
The subject was raised by panelist Peter Beinart, journalist and editor-at-large at Jewish Currents, after Morgan criticized Iran for launching strikes at surrounding Gulf States after President Donald Trump and his administration preemptively bombed Iran on Saturday.
“I would like you Piers, if you could, to get one of the parents of those 175 children who were killed in that school that the United States or Israel bombed in southern Iran, and ask people who support this war, to say to them, that this was worth it,” said Beinart.
This led Morgan to contend that it isn’t clear which nation launched the missile that struck the school.
