When Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned today in protest of the Iran war, he blamed everyone except the person who launched it. In his resignation letter, addressed to President Trump, Kent portrays the president as a passive figure manipulated by others''high-ranking Israeli officials' and 'influential members of the American media''rather than the most powerful person imposing his will upon the world. Again and again, Kent casts Trump, a two-term president, as someone swept up in events rather than driving them. 'I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term,' Kent writes. 'Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.' The alleged shift, Kent claims, was due to an Israeli and media-driven 'misinformation campaign that...
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