One of the United States’ top counterterrorism officials resigned on Tuesday, citing his opposition to the war in Iran and what he said was Israel’s influence over the Trump administration’s policies, a sign of emerging divisions in the Republican coalition.
The official, Joe Kent, is the first senior member of the administration to quit over the war.
The seemingly open-ended nature of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran has created strong divisions among Mr. Trump’s supporters. An anti-interventionist wing of the coalition, which supported President Trump because of his criticism of long overseas conflicts, has quickly become uneasy with the war, which has lasted 18 days with no immediate sign of ending.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Mr. Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in a letter to Mr. Trump. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Joe Kent was the GOP candidate in my WA state Congressional District in the last election. He’s generally an idiot, but he got it right on this one (i.e., that Netanyahu talked Trump into a war that’s not in our interest.)
If he runs again as anti-war candidate, he has a good chance of winning since the DEM took the AIPAC money and has been a reliable vote in support of the genocide in Gaza.
Well that’s true. Just like in Afghanistan, and Vietnam, and Libya, and Yemen, and Syria. And Nigeria. Oh, for the glorious valor of US bombs raining down from the sky, saving the world from, uh, bombs raining down from the sky.
