Tucker Carlson suggests Pete Buttigieg never served in Afghanistan

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From the February 19, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): You really get the impression Buttigieg spent his time in Afghanistan stringing Taliban ears onto necklaces. As he told Beto O'Rourke at one of the Democratic debates, I don't need lessons from you on courage. Ugh. Who talks like that? Not people who've actually been there, that's for sure. Phonies talk like that. And Buttigieg is nothing, if not a phony.