“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” That’s what Mr Joe Kent, an army veteran who ran the National Counterterrorism Center, the United States government’s primary body tasked with fighting global terrorism, wrote in his resignation letter handed to President Donald Trump on March 17. Mr Kent is a decidedly odd individual. He is associated with far-right, racist white supremacist movements. He dismissed Covid-19 vaccines as “experimental gene therapy”...