更新于 2026 年 3 月 3 日，美国东部时间下午 2:29 | 发布于 2026 年 3 月 3 日，美国东部时间下午 2:29 | 作者：安德鲁·卡钦斯基
（图片说明） 这张白宫提供的图片显示，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普于 2026 年 2 月 28 日在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的海湖庄园主持“史诗 Fury 行动”，从左至右分别为中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫、美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥和白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯。
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当美军在伊朗境内展开轰炸行动时，总统唐纳德·特朗普及其几位最高国家安全官员正主导着一场他们曾警告过代价高昂、破坏稳定且违背美国利益的战争。
十多年前，特朗普多次（且错误地）预测，时任总统巴拉克·奥巴马会为政治利益与伊朗开战——他警告称“生命将被无端浪费”。
2011 年至 2012 年期间，特朗普反复提出，与伊朗的对抗具有政治动机、战略上不必要，且可能导致美军伤亡。
并非只有他一人持此观点。他现任的几位最高国家安全官员此前也曾明确反对对伊朗采取军事行动。副总统 J.D. 万斯、国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德和国家反恐中心主任乔·肯特均对政府目前发起的这场行动提出了尖锐批评。
他们过去的怀疑凸显了特朗普政治崛起的一个核心主题，也是其“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）运动十余年的关键支柱：承诺避免美国参与所谓的“无休止”或“愚蠢”的中东及其他地区战争。
（图片说明） 2026 年 2 月 27 日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在德克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂港发表讲话。特朗普此次访问得州是为了就物价和经济问题发表评论，距离该州 3 月 3 日的中期初选不到一周。
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尽管特朗普曾承诺避免“无休止的战争”和代价高昂的对外干预，但他的两届任期内仍发动了一系列海外军事行动——包括 2020 年刺杀伊朗将军卡西姆·苏莱曼尼、2025 年袭击伊朗核设施，以及今年早些时候抓捕委内瑞拉领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗。
迄今为止，他与伊朗的无限制战争是他发起的最大规模军事行动，也是最直接与其过去反对美国海外干预言论相矛盾的行动。
白宫发言人安娜·凯利表示，特朗普总统阻止伊朗获取核武器的立场与他的前任们在白宫的立场一致。凯利还提供了新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特的公开声明：
“特朗普总统勇敢地决定发起‘史诗 Fury 行动’，其依据是近 50 年来历任总统一直谈论但无人有勇气面对的一个事实：伊朗对美国及其在中东的军队构成直接且迫在眉睫的威胁。在阿亚图拉邪恶势力掌控下的伊朗流氓政权多年来已造成数千名美国公民和士兵伤亡——这一切将在特朗普总统任内终结。”
（图片说明） 2026 年 3 月 1 日，德黑兰发生导弹袭击后升起的烟柱。
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“他会挑起战争”
在 2024 年特朗普 – 万斯竞选搭档期间，万斯驳斥了对特朗普好战风格的批评，称虽然他的言辞具有煽动性，但行动却更不具攻击性且更倾向和平。
“刻薄的推文与世界和平听起来相当不错。”万斯说道。
这种反干预主义信息是特朗普早在首次竞选总统前就一直宣扬的核心内容。
“我认为他会在大选前对伊朗发动战争，这将使共和党人很难获胜。”2012 年 1 月，特朗普在肖恩·汉尼提的广播节目中评论当时的总统奥巴马时表示，“他会挑起战争，你知道，生命将被无端浪费。”
特朗普当时正通过参加保守政治行动会议（CPAC）和福克斯新闻节目，开始在保守派政治领域崭露头角。汉尼提称这种轰炸伊朗的想法“是美国历史上最令人不寒而栗的权力滥用”。
“是的，我认为这会发生。”特朗普回应道，“会发生某种战争。与其通过谈判解决（其实这非常容易），还不如发动战争。这并非出于软弱，而是要展现强硬谈判者的姿态。你有很多力量。但你知道，我预测他会挑起某种战争、小规模冲突或冲突。”
特朗普未为其预测提供任何证据，当时也没有公开迹象表明奥巴马政府正计划与伊朗开战。奥巴马任内从未发生过此类冲突。
汉尼提现在表示，过去的美国总统“没有政治勇气”攻击伊朗。
特朗普政府已证实，在此次行动中至少有 6 名美军士兵死亡，另有数人重伤。
特朗普在周日的视频讲话中承认了伤亡情况，并警告称随着行动继续，更多美军死亡可能发生。
（图片说明） 2026 年 3 月 2 日，伊朗米纳布一所学校遭以色列空袭后，人们正在为受害者准备坟墓。
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（图片说明） 2026 年 3 月 1 日，德黑兰民众哀悼时，一名男子手持已故最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊的照片。
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其他批评伊朗打击行动的政府官员
2024 年，时任参议员的万斯曾表示，此类冲突不会符合美国利益，反而会耗尽美国资源。
“我认为我们的利益在于不与伊朗开战。”万斯在 2024 年 10 月接受喜剧演员蒂姆·迪隆采访时称，“这将是资源的巨大分散，对我们国家来说代价极其高昂。我不希望美国成为世界警察。”
在白宫发布的照片中，万斯和加巴德在打击行动展开时坐在 Situation Room（情况室）内——作为监控和协调行动的团队成员之一。
（图片说明） 这张由白宫提供的部分模糊照片显示，副总统 J.D. 万斯于 2 月 28 日（周六）在“史诗 Fury 行动”期间，与能源部长克里斯·赖特、国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德和财政部长斯科特·贝森特在白宫情况室听取汇报。
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现任国家情报局局长的加巴德，其政治身份很大程度上建立在强烈反对美国干预战争（包括对伊朗）之上。
作为 2018 年民主党国会候选人，伊拉克战争退伍军人加巴德警告称：“每一笔用于干预政权更迭战争的美元，都是本可用于国内教育、医疗、基础设施及其他众多迫切需求的资金。”
2019 年，作为国会议员的加巴德在接受福克斯新闻采访时仍坚持反干预立场，称“伊朗目前并未对美国构成直接威胁”。
2020 年苏莱曼尼被杀后，当时已成为总统候选人的加巴德警告称，此次袭击将把美国推向灾难性冲突，并呼吁立即停止升级。
她在社交媒体平台上发布“不与伊朗开战”的标语，并销售印有该口号的商品，包括印有“不与伊朗开战”字样的 T 恤。
“与伊朗开战会让伊拉克/阿富汗战争看起来像一场野餐。# 支持图尔西 # 不与伊朗开战。”她在 2020 年 1 月 7 日的推文中写道，该推文链接到当月的福克斯新闻露面报道。“这场战争在生命、美国生命和美国纳税人的金钱方面将代价远为高昂。”
去年，在美军轰炸伊朗核设施之前，加巴德发布了一段视频，警告称世界“比以往任何时候都更接近核毁灭的边缘”，这引起了特朗普的愤怒。据美国有线电视新闻网当时报道，特朗普认为这段视频是对其允许以色列打击伊朗的考虑的隐晦批评。
与加巴德类似，乔·肯特以坚定的反战立场踏入政治领域。
肯特曾是绿色贝雷帽成员，他表示，在目睹“政府机构在中东战争中存在的失败”以及官员“对政权更迭战争撒谎”后，他投身政治。
在采访中，他抨击“军工复合体”，称华盛顿已将国家困在“与国家利益脱节的无休止战争”中。
“让我们不要与伊朗开启新的战争。”肯特在 2021 年的一次电台采访中表示，同时还称赞了特朗普。
（图片说明） 2026 年 3 月 1 日，加沙中部布赖杰巴勒斯坦难民营拍摄到一枚从伊朗发射的导弹。
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Trump once warned ‘lives will be wasted’ in Iran war. Now he’s leading one
Updated Mar 3, 2026, 2:29 PM ET | Published Mar 3, 2026, 2:29 PM ET | By Andrew Kaczynski
In this handout image, US President Donald Trump oversees “Operation Epic Fury” with, from left, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago on February 28, 2026 in Palm Beach, Florida.
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As US forces carry out bombing operations inside Iran, President Donald Trump and several of his top national security officials are now presiding over a war they once warned would be costly, destabilizing and against American interests.
More than a decade ago, Trump repeatedly (and wrongly) predicted that then-President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran for political benefit — warning that “lives will be wasted for no reason.”
Throughout 2011 and 2012, Trump returned again and again to the idea that a confrontation with Iran would be politically motivated, strategically unnecessary and likely lead to US casualties.
He was not alone. Several of his current top national security officials previously voiced opposition to the idea of US military action against Iran. Vice President J.D. Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent have each been sharply critical of the kind of campaign the administration has now launched.
Their past skepticism underscored a broader theme that has defined Trump’s political rise and which has been a key pillar of his MAGA movement for more than a decade: promises to avoid what Trump and his allies have described as “endless” or “stupid” wars in the Middle East and beyond.
US President Donald Trump speaks at the Port of Corpus Christi on February 27, 2026 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Trump visited Texas to deliver remarks on affordability and economic issues less than a week before the state’s midterm primary elections on March 3rd.
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Despite campaigning on a promise to avoid “endless wars” and costly foreign interventions, Trump’s two terms have seen a series of military operations abroad — including the 2020 assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2025, and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro earlier this year.
His open-ended war with Iran is by far the largest military operation he has initiated and the one that most directly contradicts his past rhetoric against US intervention abroad.
Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the White House, said President Trump’s stance on stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon has been consistently shared by his predecessors in the White House. Kelly also provided an on-record statement from press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“President Trump’s courageous decision to launch Operation Epic Fury is grounded in a truth that presidents for nearly 50 years have been talking about, but no president had the courage to confront: Iran poses a direct and imminent threat to the United States of America and our troops in the Middle East. The rogue Iranian Regime under the evil hand of the Ayatollah has killed and maimed thousands of American citizens and soldiers over the years – and that ends with President Trump.”
Smoke plumes rise following missile strikes in Tehran on March 1, 2026.
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‘He’ll start a war’
As the Trump-Vance ticket campaigned in 2024, Vance brushed aside criticism of Trump’s combative style, arguing that while his rhetoric was provocative, his actions were less combative and more peaceful.
“Mean tweets and world peace has a pretty nice ring to it,” Vance said.
That anti-interventionalist message was central to Trump’s own rhetoric even before his first campaign for the presidency.
“I say that he starts a war in Iran before the election, which will make it very hard for the Republican to win,” Trump said of then-President Barack Obama in January 2012 on the Sean Hannity radio program. “He’ll start a war, you know, lives will be wasted for no reason.”
The 2012 comment from Trump, who was then making early forays into conservative politics with appearances at CPAC and on Fox News, prompted Hannity to call the notion of bombing Iran “the most chilling abuse of power, is what you’re describing, in American history.”
“Yeah, I think it’s going to happen,” Trump responded. “There’ll be some kind of a war started. Instead of working it out, which you can do very easily. And not from weakness, hey look, you know, it’s called be a tough negotiator. You have a lot of strength. But you know, rather than doing that, I predict that he will start some kind of a war/ skirmish or conflict.”
Trump offered no evidence for his prediction, and there was no public indication the Obama administration was planning a war with Iran. No such conflict ever occurred during Obama’s presidency.
Hannity now says past American presidents “didn’t have the political courage” to attack Iran.
The Trump administration has confirmed that at least six US service members have been killed and several others seriously wounded during the operations,
Trump, speaking in a video address on Sunday, acknowledged the casualties and warned that more US deaths were likely as the campaign continues.
Graves are being prepared for the victims following an Israeli strike on a school in Minab, Iran, on March 2, 2026.
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In 2011 and 2012, Trump returned repeatedly to the baseless claim that Obama would start a war with Iran.
“I think that he would do it. I do believe he will do it, whether he does it under the guise of Israel or not, but I do believe he would do it,” Trump said in another interview with Fox Host Jeannine Pirro in April 2012 about war with Iran.
In a 2011 video blog that has since been deleted, he said: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak, and he’s ineffective. So the only way he figures that he’s going to get reelected — as sure as you’re sitting there — is to start a war with Iran.”
Speaking on “The Laura Ingraham Show” in April 2012, Trump again forecast conflict.
“I happen to think that the president is going to start a war with Iran,” Trump said. “I think it’ll be a short-term popular thing to do. And I think he’s going to do that for political reasons.”
A person holds a picture of Iran’s deceased supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as people mourn in Tehran, on Sunday.
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Other administration officials critical of Iran strikes
In 2024, then-Senator Vance argued that such a conflict would not serve American interests and would drain US resources.
“Our interest I think very much is in not going to war with Iran,” Vance said in an interview with comedian Tim Dillon in October 2024. “It would be a huge distraction of resources it would be massively expensive to our country.
“I don’t want America to be the policeman of the world,” he added.
In photographs released by the White House, Vance and Gabbard were seated in the Situation Room as the strikes unfolded — part of the team monitoring and coordinating the operation.
This photo provided by the White House, which has been partially blurred, shows Vice President JD Vance listening with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the White House Situation Room during Operation Epic Fury on Saturday, February 28.
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Gabbard, who now serves as Director of National Intelligence, built much of her political identity on vehement opposition to US wars of intervention — including against Iran.
As a Democratic candidate for Congress in 2018, Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, warned that, “Every dollar spent on interventionist regime-change wars is a dollar not spent on education, health care, infrastructure and a myriad of other needs so desperately needed right here at home.”
Gabbard maintained her anti-interventionalist stances as a congresswoman, telling Fox News in 2019, “Currently, Iran does not pose a direct threat to the United States.”
After the 2020 killing of Soleimani, Gabbard, by then a presidential candidate, warned the strike would push the US toward a catastrophic conflict and called for an immediate end to escalation.
She posted “No War With Iran” across her social media platforms and sold merchandise bearing the slogan, including T-shirts emblazoned with the words “NO WAR WITH IRAN.”
“War with Iran would make Iraq/Afghanistan wars seem like a picnic. #StandWIthTulsi #NoWarWithIran,” she said in a Jan. 7, 2020 tweet linking to a Fox News appearance that month.
“It will be far more costly in lives, American lives, and American taxpayer dollars,” she said.
A missile launched from Iran is pictured in the sky from the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on March 1, 2026.
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Last year, before the US bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, Gabbard drew Trump’s ire over a video she posted warning that the world is “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.” As CNN reported at the time, Trump viewed the video as a thinly veiled criticism of his consideration to allow Israel to strike Iran.
Not unlike Gabbard, Joe Kent entered politics by staking out a staunchly anti-war stance.
Kent, a former Green Beret, said he turned to politics after witnessing “the failures of the government establishment keeping us at war in the Middle East” and watching officials “lie about regime-change wars.”
In interviews, he railed against the “military industrial complex” and argued that Washington had trapped the country in “endless wars” disconnected from the national interest.
“Let’s not start a new war with Iran,” Kent said in 2021 radio interview in which he also praised Trump.
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