OK. Let's Take the Case for Trump's Iran War Seriously and Count the Wins and Losses [View all]
By Nick Licata
It is more likely that President Donald J. Trump was driven by his vanity rather than by the necessity of stopping Iran from attacking America when he bombed Iran and started a war.
After the initial wave of strikes against Iran, Trump cited an “imminent threat” to the US. His officials said we acted in response to potential preemptive attacks by Iran on forces in the region. However, Pentagon officials briefing Congress later contradicted these claims, saying that Iran was not planning to attack unless struck first.
Joe Kent was Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Trump personally endorsed and backed Kent when Kent ran for Congress. Kent promoted the claim that Trump won the 2020 election and campaigned for Trump’s America First foreign policy agenda.
Nevertheless, he resigned as director on March 17, 2026, just over two weeks after Israel and the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities, military sites, and government compounds. He believed he could no longer serve the nation faithfully and publicly refuted Trump’s initial rationale for starting the war, writing on X that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”
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