US government is FAR better off without conspiracy – Latest News
Feverish Iran-war critics Tuesday seized on Joe Kent’s resignation as national counterterrorism director as by some means proving President Donald Trump was silly to launch Operation Epic Fury, when in truth Kent’s “I quit” letter proves he by no means belonged in that high post.
It’s not simply that he contradicted his own previous positions (e.g., saying Trump ought to’ve attacked Iran’s weapons applications in 2020) in a letter that now says Iran posed no “imminent threat” and insists Trump went to warfare two weeks in the past “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
It’s that he bizarrely blamed Israel for the Gulf War (which Ariel Sharon quietly suggested towards) and even for his own spouse’s tragic death in Syria by the hands of ISIS in a marketing campaign begun by Israel-hating President Barack Obama (to clean up the mess created by Obama’s own insurance policies).
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Kent’s service to the nation consists of 11 fight tours; it’s past unhappy to see him ranting antisemitic conspiracy theories, and publicly assaulting the president within the center of a warfare.
Of course Democrats and their media minions cheered, although they’d beforehand assailed Kent for allegedly associating with far-right figures.
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But the conspiracy idea he’s now embraced is large on the left: No much less that Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Kent’s declare that the warfare is Israel’s fault.
Sadly, it appears to be like like he’s been in decline for some time: Numerous leaks recommend Kent had been sidelined for months on account of suspicion of leaking info.
Whatever the complete story, the nation’s plainly better with this nutcase out of government.
Trump has condemned antisemitism and is main a profitable warfare effort over the objections of extremists, left and proper.
If any more Joe Kents are nonetheless working for him, they need to go.
