Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned this past week and immediately launched a public campaign against the U.S. strikes on Iran, calling the conflict a war fought on behalf of a foreign government. He appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show a day after quitting, asserting that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to the United States and that the war began “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
According to The Hill, Kent is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to resign over opposition to the strikes. His departure, and the media tour that followed, has cracked open a fault line on the American right that polling suggests is narrower than the volume of the debate would imply, but that carries real weight among populist and libertarian-leaning conservatives who backed Trump precisely because they expected restraint abroad.
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