A government intelligence officer who left President Donald Trump’s administration to oppose the conflict in Iran claimed that America is now “in peril” due to his anger.
Trump thinks he is endangering Iran, but it is the United States that is now at risk,Joe Kent, former head of the United States National Counterterrorism Center, shared on the social media site X on Tuesday. “If he tries to destroy Iranian culture, the United States will no longer be seen as a stabilizing factor globally, but as a source of disorder — effectively ending our position as the world’s leading superpower.”
He stated, “This would disrupt our economy and break the global system. The process has already begun, but we still have a chance to prevent disaster if Trump shows the strength to engage in meaningful talks instead of acting with wild anger and causing harm.”
Kent, who stepped down in March to object to Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran, recently stated to right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson that he thinks a “foreign connection” prompted Trump to launch the invasion of Iran and was also involved in the killing of the conservative figure, Charlie Kirk.
Things really started to pick up on Tuesday when Kent informed conservative writer (and former California governor candidate) Michael Shellenberger that he would be willing to testify in the defense of accused Kirk murderer Tyler Robinson, claiming the FBI mishandled the investigation,wrote The Bulwark’s conservative commentator Will Sommer at the time“Kent informed Shellenberger that he had been cautioned that his own investigation into Kirk’s murder—conducted from his official position, independent of the FBI—might hinder the case against Robinson.”
Kent then said, “I was repeatedly cautioned about that. If I end up needing to [testify], I will. It’s not something I’m looking for.”
Since Kent has also alleged that Trump entered Iran because of Israel’s influence, some specialists are worried that his statements are fueling anti-Semitism.
When a country initiates a conflict based on questionable motives and subsequently faces the outcomes, there is typically an effort to find someone to blame,military historian Max Boot contributed an article to The Washington Post last month. “Numerous conspiracy theories exist. It occurred following World War I, with the primary antagonists being ‘merchants of death’ and international bankers. It resurfaced after the Iraq War, which some attributed to ‘neoconservatives’ and Halliburton, an oil-services company headed by Dick Cheney prior to his role as vice president.”
All these scapegoats — the so-called “merchants of death,” “international bankers,” “neoconservatives,” and others — are code terms for “Jews,” Boot remarked. Now, the long-time editorialist speculated that Trump’s “reckless war against Iran” could lead to this happening again.
As is often the case, the Jews— or, as you might prefer to call them, ‘Zionists’ or ‘the Israel lobby’— serve as a convenient scapegoat,” Boot concluded. “What the far-right fringe once muttered—that this was ‘a war for Israel’—suddenly appeared on the front pages last week following Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. In a fierce public letter, Kent stated that ‘Iran did not pose an immediate threat to our country’ and that ‘we initiated this conflict due to pressure from Israel and its influential American lobby.’
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