Photo: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images The day before Joe Kent resigned from the Trump administration as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, declaring he could not in “good conscience” support the war in Iran, he reportedly met with Vice-President J.D. Vance. Vance and Kent had been allies in the MAGA realm, representing the isolationist, war-skeptical faction that seemed ascendant in Trump’s 2024 campaign. Kent presented his resignation letter to Vance, and the vice-