A top Trump aide resigned over Iran. Liberals should stay away from him.

Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on December 11, 2025. | Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

This morning, Joe Kent — the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — resigned in protest over the war in Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war,” he said in a resignation letter addressed to Trump and published on X.

You’d think that a war critic like myself should welcome this development.