Is Mike Waltz Saying We Should Bomb HOSPITALS?
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Will Saletan takes on Trump's threats to destroy Iran’s infrastructure—and the chilling defense from top officials who say “all options” includes targets that blur into civilian life. As the language shifts from bridges to hospitals and schools, the question isn’t just strategy—it’s how far the U.S. is willing to go.
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| 0:30.4 | Hey, it's Will Salatan from the bulwark. |
| 0:32.5 | So in the war in Iran, we are the good guys, right? |
| 0:37.0 | I mean, the Iranian regime is definitely the bad |
| 0:40.6 | guys, right? They support terrorism. They massacre their own protesters. They shoot missiles at |
| 0:47.8 | civilians in other countries. They're just bad. So that means we are the good guys, right? But it turns out that it's really |
| 0:57.3 | easy for the good guys to become bad guys. And that's what is happening to the United States, |
| 1:04.6 | our country right now. Let me show you what I'm talking about. Here is what our president, |
| 1:09.9 | Donald Trump, posted on Truth |
| 1:12.6 | Social on Sunday morning. He said, if Iran doesn't accept our terms for ending the war, quote, |
| 1:20.5 | the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice Guy. |
| 1:31.7 | And when Trump says, no more Mr. Nice Guy, he's not talking about table manners. He means we're |
| 1:38.9 | not going to fuss anymore about all those annoying rules in the Geneva Conventions or the Hague conventions about |
| 1:47.5 | targeting civilian assets like bridges and power plants. |
| 1:51.4 | We're not going to fuss anymore about whether what we're doing is a war crime. |
| 1:57.7 | Now, it's one thing for Trump to say that, but you don't really become a bad country, |
| 2:04.7 | so you have other people in our government following Trump's lead and defending those threats. |
| 2:11.5 | And that is what happened yesterday on the Sunday shows. |
| 2:15.3 | I'm going to show you three senior officials from the Trump |
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