CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MARCH 19, 2026
FEW HAD HEARD OF HIM UNTIL THIS WEEK. JOE KENT WAS THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL COUNTER TERRORISM. IN A RESIGNATION LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP, KENT SAID HE OPPOSES THE WAR WITH IRAN BECAUSE THE TOP SPONSOR OF TERORISM IN THE WORLD DID NOT PRESENT WHAT HE CALLED AN “IMMINENT THREAT” TO THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT CONSTITUTES AN “IMMINENT THREAT”? WHEN A NATION’S LEADERS REPEATEDLY SAY THEY ARE OUT TO DESTROY YOU AND THEN TAKE ACTIONS THAT DEMONSTRATE THEY ARE SERIOUS, IS THAT AN IMMINENT THREAT?
WHEN THEY DEVELOP NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND BOOST IT CLOSELY TO THE STAGE WHERE THEY CAN USE IT TO BUILD A BOMB AND ICBM’S TO DELIVER THOSE BOMBS, IS THAT AN IMMINENT THREAT?
IF WE HAD WAITED UNTIL IRAN HAD BUILT NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND ACHIEVED THE CAPACITY TO DELIVER THEM TO TARGETS IN ISRAEL, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO LATE. THIS WAS A PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND, NO, ISRAEL DID NOT SEDUCE THE PRESIDENT INTO THIS CONFLICT. THE CONFLICT HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE 1979 WHEN THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION OVERTHREW THE SHAH OF IRAN AND THE AYATOLLAHS TOOK OVER. . WAKE-UP CRITICS TO THIS IMMINENT THREAT. I’M CAL THOMAS.
