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The Easy Part of the Iran War Is Over | The Bulwark Podcast

2026-03-20 News & Politics
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The U.S. is at war with the leading state sponsor of terror, and Donald Trump appointed Markwayne Mullin—a man with no counter-terrorism experience—to help defend the homeland. At the same time, Hegseth is a meathead, and the shoe designer at the top of the FBI is preoccupied with visiting all the places on his bucket list. This is the moment for Democrats to argue that Trump has made the country very vulnerable. Plus, the administration apparently did not consider worst case scenarios vis-à-vis Iran, the Iraq War planners look like pros in comparison, Denmark was seriously preparing for an American invasion of Greenland, and is Israel's conduct contributing to the growing antisemitism problem? David Frum joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod. Listeners to our show get 20% their first purchase when using the code THEBULWARK at checkout. Go to https://fastgrowingtrees.com Show Notes: David's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-frum-show/id1305908387 David encouraging Dems to get to the right of Trump on the war: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/democrats-strategy-iran-war/686404/?gift=AO0MhSsTDaHgiP_RxFGfBxMx6lE-RsywSVDvaJ_Q5NE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Tim's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dApY6YT48kTh6j9xFDQch Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join Chapters:

Top Comments (10)

@jonathanrider4417 2026-03-20

Antisemitism is not the same as anti-Israel sentiment.

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@Mr.Mid-man 2026-03-20

Couldn't help but notice when Frum pointed out that: Bush got approval from congress for his war. He skated right past the part where they got that approval by lying.

473 51 replies
@quasistellar 2026-03-20

Frum has blinders when it comes to Israel.

420 32 replies
@deepdigger-c6k 2026-03-20

Japan's Prime Minister seemed impressed when Mark Carney spoke Japanese. He didn't bring up Pearl Harbor.

172 7 replies
@MrJsbach123 2026-03-20

Unbelievable what happened to this moronic country

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@MiguelitointheTrees 2026-03-20

David's description of how we get back American global leadership, congressional leaders on both sides demand that Trump fix a few things, is so fanciful that I am now seriously depressed.

142 10 replies
@MKR5210 2026-03-20

Let's see, Trump is demanding help with Hormuz from my country, which is a member of NATO. His justification for this demand is that he is protecting NATO from Iran. In the last 12 months Iran has not threatened NATO, but Trump has threatened to annex Canada (member), invade Greenland (member) and "take" it from Denmark (member). So the only country NATO needs to defend itself from is America 🤨

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@Ollieoopbigboy 2026-03-20

Frum, dude, we caused the petroleum supply disruptions.

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@barbarajahn8574 2026-03-20

Another issue no one is paying attention to is the current fate of thousands of merchant mariners on the more than 3000 ships in the gulf area literally marooned in place who, after 3 weeks, are running out of food and having to ration potable water. They are not allowed into any ports and no one is supplying them on the sea because most small working vessels are being attacked. About 20 crew per ship forgotten by the world they carry cargo for. The situation is urgent!

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@gmills8665 2026-03-20

Every Frum episode is 1/4 Tim asking intelligent questions, 1/4 David Frum answering two or three things well, and 1/2 Frum out to lunch as a rambling apologist for some of the worst arguments in the world

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