Stewart Claims Iran War Violence Is 'Almost Sexual' For Hegseth #Political
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed former spokesman for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, to Wednesday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast to discuss the war in Iran. At one point, Stewart would allege that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gets a perverse sense of sexual satisfaction from the violence he is able to inflict on other people as a result of being a wartime secretary.
For Stewart, one of the lessons that the Trump administration failed to learn from Iraq was “this idea that we can say to Iranians, ‘Your government is terrible and you're suffering’—and they clearly are and they clearly hate them and they clear—‘And so we're going to make the decision as we did in Iraq and now that you'll be better off.’ And that's the arrogance that I'm talking about. China does it a different way. They say, ‘I'm going to influence you through infrastructure or I'm going to flood your markets with cheap goods,' but it's certainly different than how the West does it.”
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While Campbell played a large role in trying to sell the Iraq War to the British people, he nevertheless agreed, “I totally agree with that, and I think that is a lesson that Keir Starmer was pointing to when he said we have to learn some of the lessons of these past interventions. And I think we’re in a place in the world right now, exacerbated by the character and the personality of the current incumbent occupant of the White House.”
He then transitioned into how both the U.S. and U.K. seem to be comfortable with the idea of national decline, but his examples were not the best, “You mentioned Brexit earlier. I would argue that Brexit was an indication of a country, our country, for whatever reason, deciding to go along with its own decline, okay? I think your choice of Trump for a second term is an indication of America deciding to go along with its own decline. And the arrogance that you talk about, when you hear that vile Hegseth, sort of spraying this with stuff from the Bible and telling us about what to believe and all this stuff, whilst clearly glorifying in the sense of domination and violence of other people.”
That’s when Stewart interrupted to add, “It's almost sexual for him. It almost feels as though it's erotic.”
Campbell was amazed by the idea, “Wow. I mean, that is a horrible thought that I've never had before.”
Stewart insisted, “Oh, you got to watch him. You got to watch him more. There's a reveling in it that’s stunning.”
He also continued the media trend of taking some of Hegseth’s remarks wildly out of context, “He came out the other day, ‘no quarter, no mercy,’ just blatantly saying, 'You know those things that we came up after World War Two to try and prevent the horrors? Yeah. We're getting rid of all that. We're just going in. Might make right.”
Campbell joined in, “Stupid rules of engagement," as Stewart echoed, “Stupid rules of engagement. When did you ever think of somebody that has some authority over the worst weapons in the entire universe?” Campbell could only add “never.”
If you actually read Hegseth’s remarks in context, it is unambiguously obvious that he is talking about the pace of air operations and not the literal definition of “no quarter," where you execute someone trying to surrender. As for “stupid rules of engagement,” previous secretaries and presidents have micromanaged war efforts to such an extent that they were personally picking targets and needlessly prolonging the war. Tellingly, for all the criticism people like Stewart have lobbed at people like Hegseth, Tehran does not look like Dresden.
Here is a transcript for the March 25 show:
Comedy Central The Weekly Show
3/25/2026
JON STEWART: But this idea that we can say to Iranians, “Your government is terrible and you're suffering”—and they clearly are and they clearly hate them and they clear—“And so we're going to make the decision as we did in Iraq and now that you'll be better off.”
And that's the arrogance that I'm talking about. China does it a different way. They say, "I'm going to influence you through infrastructure or I'm going to flood your markets with cheap goods,"—
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: Yeah.
STEWART:—but it's certainly different than how the West does it.
CAMPBELL: I totally agree with that, and I think that is a lesson that Keir Starmer was pointing to when he said we have to learn some of the lessons of these past interventions. And I think we’re in a place in the world right now, exacerbated by the character and the personality of the current incumbent occupant of the White House.
You mentioned Brexit earlier. I would argue that Brexit was an indication of a country, our country, for whatever reason, deciding to go along with its own decline, okay? I think your choice of Trump for a second term is an indication of America deciding to go along with its own decline. And the arrogance that you talk about, when you hear that vile Hegseth, sort of spraying this with stuff from the Bible and telling us about what to believe and all this stuff, whilst clearly glorifying in the sense of domination and violence of other people.
STEWART: It's almost sexual for him. It almost feels as though it's erotic. This—
CAMPBELL: Wow. I mean, that is a horrible thought that I've never had before.
STEWART: Oh, you got to watch him. You got to watch him more. There's a reveling in it that’s—
CAMPBELL: There is a reveling. No doubt about it.
STEWART: —stunning. He came out the other day, “no quarter, no mercy,” just blatantly saying like, "You know those things that we came up after World War Two to try and prevent the horrors? Yeah. We're getting rid of all that.
CAMPBELL: Yeah.
STEWART: We're just going in.
CAMPBELL: Yeah.
STEWART: Might make right."
CAMPBELL: Stupid rules of engagement.
STEWART: Stupid rules of engagement. When did you ever think of somebody that has some authority over the worst weapons in the entire universe?
CAMPBELL: Never.
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