A Gold Star wife has delivered a sharp and emotional rebuke to Joe Kent, the former director of the US National Counterterrorism Center after he resigned in protest against the war in Iran and blamed Israel for dragging America into decades of conflict.
Kent wrote in his resignation letter to US President Donald Trump, “It is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
He also said, “high-ranking Israeli officials” and “influential members of the American media” created a “misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran.”
A Gold Star wife whose husband Alan was killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq, responded directly and emotionally to Kent's letter.
“Gold Star wife here. When ISIS killed your wife, you supported going after the people responsible. You understood exactly why we were fighting and never called it 'Israel's war,'" she wrote.
"You understood it when it was your loss. Now you're minimizing it when it's mine. You don't get to redefine this war just because it's not your grief anymore,” she added.
