'The Curious Case of Election-Denying White Supremacist Freakshow Joe Kent' [View all]

(TPM) "There must certainly be a word-stacking German term for the uncanny feeling of seeing a patently unqualified, far-right, election-denier, white nationalist freak becomes the only administration figure to resign over the increasingly disastrous Iran War with an at least vaguely anti-Semitic gripe. It is an interesting moment. Let’s remember that Kent isn’t just some administration official. He’s an white nationalist extremist who had no business holding any position of trust in the US government. He’s been friends to numerous anti-Semites long before today’s news broke."

"Some people are inclined to be sympathetic to the ideas contained in Kent’s claim that 't is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.' If that’s you, think a bit more seriously about just how Israel would be in a position to exert this 'pressure' and don’t let your animus toward Trump make you a fellow traveler with someone as odious as Joe Kent."

"Benjamin Netanyahu is a lifelong manipulator, schemer and liar. No foreign country can pressure the US into doing something as catastrophically stupid as what we’ve seen over the past three weeks. Did Netanyahu want this? Of course he did. Netanyahu has wanted to convince American leaders to believe they have interests identical to his narrow, usually wrongheaded and always regional goals for thirty years. Only Donald Trump is so stupid, so desperate for the adrenaline fix of another regime change on the cheap that he went for it. It is Trump who insulated himself from all but the advice of two or three ignorant toadies so that he was able to stumble this badly into a situation in which the strategic initiative – notwithstanding all the damage Iran’s has sustained – is now in the hands of the Iranians."

"Think how bad you have to screw things up to get into that position?!?!"

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