March 18, 2026
The ‘Great America’ that President Trump has been promising the public looks too often more like Al Capone’s gangster-ridden Chicago of the 1920’s – except even more violent.
At least a senior member of Trump’s government has come out and spoken the truth: Joe Kent, the former US counter-terrorism official just resigned over the US-Israeli war against Iran. Kent, a true American hero and war veteran, asserted he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war” against Iran. He stated that Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation” and that the conflict was initiated “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” What heresy!
The move comes weeks into active strikes targeting Iranian nuclear sites, leadership, and infrastructure, with Iranian retaliation underway and global oil markets feeling the strain. So far, US and Israeli strikes, guided by America’s galaxy of formidable intelligence satellites that blanket the Mideast, have truly managed to decapitate Iran’s technical, military and political leadership.
These attacks were clearly timed for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan when Muslim families gather together. That is why so many senior Iranian officials were killed.
The US was following Israel’s well proven tactic of assassinating enemy leaders. These were not the days of Waterloo when the Duke of Wellington, told Napoleon’s staff were reportedly in range of his guns, reportedly sniffed ‘gentlemen do not fire on other gentlemen.’
Not so in the Mideast where Israel follows Stalin’s famed, dictum ‘no man, no problem.’ Israel has relentlessly killed much of the Palestinian leadership, from Yasser Arafat down, often leaving only marginal figures in charge. Now it’s Iran’s turn for what Israel’s military calls ‘mowing the lawn.’
US amphibious units are nearing the Gulf intending a land campaign that would prove bloody and difficult for them. The US commands the skies and seas, but Iran’s infantry and special forces were toughened in the crucible of the murderous Iraq-Iran War from 1980 to 1988 in which close to one million Iraqis may have died. The Romans had a hard time fighting the Iranian Parthians – so may the Americans. I saw the Iranians at war.
The big question, as the courageous Joe Kent asked, is why did Trump allow the US to be dragged into this at least one billion dollar a day war unrelated to US interests? To Kent, and this veteran war correspondent, the answer is obvious: Israel is a past master at influencing US politics and finances, particularly close to elections. Israel always waits until US elections draw nigh to make very bold moves.
Israel’s leadership, including far right extremist parties, must have used material from their key master-agent Jeff Epstein to put the squeeze on Trump. Something similar happened to President Bill Clinton during his term, though of much less serious nature.
Any wonder Epstein was bumped off in the classic gangster style? Dead men tell no tales, as the pirates used to say. The US has reportedly given Israel some $300 billion since its birth in 1948, more than any other nation. People would kill to protect this kind of money.
Copyright Eric S. Margolis
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