{"id":11994,"date":"2026-04-04T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:30:11","slug":"from-isis-to-iran-joe-kent-says-washington-keeps-repeating-the-same-catastrophic-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/?p=11994","title":{"rendered":"From ISIS to Iran: Joe Kent Says Washington Keeps Repeating the Same Catastrophic Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11997\" src=\"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0838f4e8800dc13a20a5c0304965aa9d-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0838f4e8800dc13a20a5c0304965aa9d-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0838f4e8800dc13a20a5c0304965aa9d-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0838f4e8800dc13a20a5c0304965aa9d.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a wide\u2011ranging and unusually candid conversation, former National Counterterrorism Center Director\u00a0<strong>Joe Kent<\/strong>\u00a0explains why he resigned over the Trump administration\u2019s war on Iran\u2014and why he believes the United States has once again walked into a strategic disaster of its own making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent\u2019s account, drawn from decades inside U.S. covert and military operations, offers a rare insider narrative of how Washington\u2019s pro\u2011war reflexes, Israeli pressure, and America\u2019s own history of regime\u2011change hubris converged into the current crisis.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A War Built on a False Premise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent opens with the core claim that drove his resignation:\u00a0<strong>Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As he puts it,\u00a0<em>\u201cIran was not on the cusp of attacking us\u2026 They observed a very calculated escalation ladder.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Kent, Iran halted proxy attacks once Trump returned to office, sat at the negotiating table, and even refrained from striking U.S. forces during the 12\u2011day war\u2014until Israel launched its own attack on Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The only \u201cimminent threat,\u201d Kent argues, came not from Tehran but from\u00a0<strong>Israel\u2019s unilateral actions<\/strong>, which forced Washington into a conflict it did not need and could not win.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How Israeli Influence Shapes U.S. War Decisions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the most explosive threads in the interview is Kent\u2019s description of how Israeli intelligence, lobbying networks, and media allies shape U.S. policy far beyond what most Americans understand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent describes a \u201cmulti\u2011layered influence ecosystem\u201d that bypasses normal intelligence vetting and pressures senior U.S. officials directly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cThey will come in and say, \u2018They\u2019re within two weeks of getting a bomb,\u2019 and that night it\u2019s repeated on TV,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he explains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This echo chamber, he argues, successfully moved the U.S. red line from\u00a0<strong>\u201cno nuclear weapon\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>\u201cno enrichment at all\u201d<\/strong>\u2014a shift that made diplomacy impossible and war inevitable.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Forever-War Reflex in Washington<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent echoes what former officials like Lawrence Wilkerson have long warned: Washington has a\u00a0<strong>structural bias toward war<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Defense contractors, political incentives, and a bipartisan foreign\u2011policy class create what Kent calls the \u201cfactory settings\u201d of U.S. power\u2014settings that default to escalation, not restraint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even Trump, who campaigned on ending endless wars, was eventually pulled into the Iran conflict. Kent argues Israeli officials and neoconservative advisers played to Trump\u2019s ego, promising an easy, historic victory.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The U.S. Role in Creating ISIS\u2014And Repeating the Pattern<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent\u2019s most damning historical analysis concerns the U.S. role in the rise of ISIS and al\u2011Qaeda affiliates in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He recounts how the Iraq War destabilized the region, empowered Iranian\u2011aligned militias, and pushed Gulf states and Israel to back radical Sunni factions in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cWe were supporting al\u2011Qaeda, which eventually morphed into ISIS,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Kent says bluntly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He describes how U.S. and Turkish support helped elevate\u00a0<strong>Abu Mohammad al\u2011Julani<\/strong>, an al\u2011Qaeda figure who now effectively governs northwest Syria with tacit Western acceptance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The lesson, Kent argues, is clear:\u00a0<strong>regime\u2011change wars always produce monsters\u2014and America never seems to learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Iran\u2019s Strategy: Win by Not Losing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent believes Iran has adopted a long\u2011term strategy shaped by watching U.S. failures in Iraq and Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 survive \u2022 absorb blows \u2022 raise global energy costs \u2022 outlast Washington\u2019s political will<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Iran doesn\u2019t need to defeat the U.S. militarily, he argues\u2014only to avoid collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And with control over the Strait of Hormuz, ballistic missile capacity, and regional alliances, Iran can keep the war costly indefinitely.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Nuclear Danger: A Self\u2011Fulfilling Prophecy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent warns that U.S. and Israeli pressure may push Iran toward the very outcome Washington claims to fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cWe basically destroyed the school of thought that opposed nuclear weapons,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he says, referring to the killing of Iran\u2019s former Supreme Leader and the rise of hardliners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He predicts Iran may now pursue a \u201cNorth Korea solution\u201d\u2014a nuclear deterrent to prevent future attacks.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Only Exit: Restrain Israel, Reopen Diplomacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent\u2019s prescription is stark:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"text-align: left;\" start=\"1\">\n<li><strong>Publicly restrain Israel\u2019s offensive operations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cut military aid if necessary<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Offer sanctions relief<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reopen the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Return to negotiations<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Without restraining Israel, Kent argues, the U.S. will remain trapped in an endless cycle of escalation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cUnless we restrain Israel, I just don\u2019t see us having a way out of this,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he warns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This conversation is not just another critique of U.S. foreign policy. It is a rare moment when a senior insider\u2014someone who helped run America\u2019s counterterrorism apparatus\u2014publicly breaks with the system he once served.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For ScheerPost readers, Kent\u2019s testimony reinforces what independent journalists have long documented:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022 U.S. wars are rarely about security \u2022 Israeli influence shapes U.S. decisions in ways the public never sees \u2022 regime\u2011change operations consistently backfire \u2022 Washington\u2019s war machine is structurally incapable of learning from its failures<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent\u2019s resignation and his warnings should be a national scandal. Instead, they are being heard mainly on independent platforms\u2014another sign of how tightly controlled mainstream narratives around war have become.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can read more about J<a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2026\/03\/22\/maga-goons-smear-the-grayzone-to-get-back-at-joe-kent\/\">oe Kent MAGA Goons Smear The Grayzone to Get Back at Joe Kent<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2026\/03\/21\/joe-kents-resignation-in-his-own-words-reveals-magas-fracture-over-war-not-a-break-from-empire\/\">Joe Kent\u2019s Resignation, in His Own Words, Reveals MAGA\u2019s Fracture Over War\u2014Not a Break From Empire<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Remember this too: as Nate Baer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donotpanic.news\/p\/liberals-denounce-insufficiently\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThen you\u2019ve got the frauds like Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center who just resigned over the war. A MAGA devotee and former special forces operative who pulled the trigger for U.S. imperialism in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, his resignation wasn\u2019t about ethics or principle. In his resignation letter, he even praised Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Trump was doing imperialism right then\u2014now, in Kent\u2019s view, he\u2019s simply doing it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Link :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/from-isis-to-iran-joe-kent-says-washington-keeps-repeating-the-same-catastrophic-playbook\/\">https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/from-isis-to-iran-joe-kent-says-washington-keeps-repeating-the-same-catastrophic-playbook\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide\u2011ranging and unusually candid conversation, former National Counterterrorism Center Director\u00a0Joe Kent\u00a0explains why he resigned over the Trump administration\u2019s war on Iran\u2014and why he believes the United States has once again walked into a strategic disaster of its own making. 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