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Joe Kent goes all Tucker Carlson on us, claiming Trump’s Iran actions unjustified

 

Been there, done that, boring narrative.

 

March 17, 2026

By Monica Showalter

Reprinted from American Thinker

 

They’ve been to this well before.

Now that Iran is losing its military lashout against the U.S., the mullahs and their allies are trying to claim that, like Iraq, there really isn’t any cause for extensive U.S. military action against Iran. Nothing to see here … but Israel getting the big dumb U.S. to do its dirty work for it.

It’s rubbish.

Today, there was a loud, supposedly principled resignation from the Trump administration, which must delight Iran almost as much as it delights the left.

According to the New York Times:

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.

“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.”

Kent cited the death of his wife in the useless Iraq war as his justification for his Iran decision, as if he couldn’t tell the countries or U.S. presidents apart, and from the Trump team, he got a lot of pushback.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was swift to go after him on his facts:

Trump himself weighed in, saying he was all for the best that the guy was gone, and he always thought the man was weak on security.

Then the big guns came out — from the gold-star wives who lost their spouses in Iraq, based on attacks from Iranian forces and proxies. For them, there was plenty of understanding why Iran’s mullah regime needs to go.

Iran has been a problem for years. The Trump administration says it was planning new evil acts against us. We already know that the Iranians murdered our troops in Lebanon and humiliated our sailors in the Persian Gulf, engaged in direct combat against U.S. troops in Iraq, blew up an embassy and cultural center in two separate attacks in Argentina, paid Hezb’allah to conduct terror attacks and deal drugs targeting the U.S. market, and sent in assassins against President Trump.

This isn’t the half of it, and it doesn’t even get into the nuclear weapons part. Is there anything they haven’t done? Of course, there is ample cause to take out Iran. Most of us are sick of their hate-spewing mullahs, and we know Iran’s people absolutely despise them and their many internal crimes against that population. Is he saying Marco Rubio and President Trump don’t know what they’re doing? Is he forgetting they may have access to more information than he does?

There’s no reason not to take them out.

But here we have this guy, Kent, who had a compelling story, but a bad choice of friends, Nick Fuentes was one, and Tucker Carlson, who’s gone off the deep end on Israel and embraced antisemitism, who’s another, and now he’s playing Alexander Vindmann.

It’s disgusting, swamp games undoubtedly for book and media deals. As counterterrorism chief, you’d think he would know the big picture. He may have been a good soldier in the field in his day, but in a leadership position, he seems suggestible, and therefore didn’t belong in that job.

There’s even an unverified report that his second wife has ties to Hezb’allah-linked groups.

Whatever the truth of that, he’s gone off the deep end, too, just like Tucker Carlson, and turned on President Trump, errantly claiming a quagmire, when in fact the military action is succeeding and the ‘war’ is only 18 days old.

Just shun this guy and turn off his channel. He has nothing intelligent to say here.

Image: Official portrait, via Wikipedia 

UPDATE from Andrea: Kent also has a little problem, which is that his current stance is belied by his own words. For a long time, when it was politically convenient, this former Democrat insisted that Iran was an existential threat to the United States:

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