2024. After an Iranian backed militia kills three American soldiers at a coalition base in Jordan, Joe Kent blames the U.S. government for "baiting" Iran. Kent claimed that the U.S. government was leaving troops in areas across the Middle East, hoping they would be killed and thus providing justification for a war with Iran. I know that Kent has served our country honorably and that he also lost his wife in the Middle East. I'm not attacking his character but I will say this. If you believe that it's America's fault when terrorists kill American soldiers and that our government is intentionally trying to get our people killed, you probably should not be the Director of the Counterterrorism Center.

Iranian backed proxies and militia attacked our people every year of the Biden administration. Hundreds of attacks. Biden did not respond with war. Instead, he released billions of dollars to Iran. Also, I watched a number of Kent interviews during those years. He did talk a lot about warmongers and neocons but I don't ever remember him even mentioning Israel.