Bill Kristol: End the War
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
As the Iran war enters its third week, the Trump administration looks like it doesn’t know what it’s doing: It did not bother to consult U.S. allies before the military operation began but it now wants their help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz; POTUS keeps talking about his great victory even with Marine Expeditionary Forces en route; and the disruption in the oil markets is likely to last for months. In the face of the neutered Republican leaders in Congress, the Dems must be a hard “No” on additional funding—unless it’s about helping our people to exit safely. Plus, FCC Chair Brendan Carr is threatening broadcasters for reporting the truth about the war, JD is hiding in the hedge, our enemies are less afraid of us, the "Donroe Doctrine" looks like a joke, and a major intra-right fight has broken out online.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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| 1:29.5 | Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It is Monday, so he's back, editor at large of the Bullwark, Bill Crystal. Hey, Bill. Hey, Tim. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. You know, I'm disappointed on behalf of all the Timothy Chalemae stands out there. |
| 1:32.1 | It's three straight snubs for him at the Oscars. |
| 1:33.3 | He should have three already. |
| 1:35.0 | And yet zero. |
| 1:40.1 | I think it's potentially discrimination against Twinks that's at play here. |
| 1:41.4 | It could be something to that. |
| 1:42.1 | But I don't know. |
| 2:01.7 | We're hoping for more representation in the future. You should have them on the podcast tomorrow to discuss that. I've been trying. I've been trying. You want me to place a call? I could help with that, you know? Okay. Thank you. Yeah, I'm sure you have some New Yorkians. He's a New Yorker. I'm sure you guys have some, you know, same temple or something. We want to talk about Iran to start. |
| 2:07.0 | And you had Bob Kagan on yesterday, your Sunday conversations with Bill. |
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