根据最新民调显示，约四分之一的美国人，以及大多数共和党人表示支持美国总统唐纳德·特朗普下令对伊朗发动的军事打击。
这项由路透社/益普索在周六和周日进行的全国性调查，是在美国和以色列部队开始“史诗狂怒行动”数小时后开展的。此次行动导致伊朗最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊遇袭身亡。调查同时显示，约有一半受访者认为特朗普过于愿意使用军事力量。
在接受调查的人中，27%表示支持此次打击，43%表示反对，近三成受访者不确定。
但党派分歧明显：共和党人以55%对32%的优势支持军事行动。绝大多数民主党人（73%）反对此次打击，仅有7%表示支持。多数独立人士（44%）反对军事攻击，19%表示支持，近四成受访者不确定。
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此次民调是在美国军方周日宣布行动中首次出现美军伤亡之前进行的——三名军人丧生，五人重伤。
特朗普在周一接受《纽约邮报》采访时被问及新民调时表示：“我认为这次民调做得很好，但我不在乎民调结果。我必须做正确的事。我必须做正确的事。这件事早就该做了。”
美以联合行动预计将持续数天。官员告诉福克斯新闻，以色列正瞄准伊朗领导层，而美国则在打击构成“紧迫威胁”的军事目标和弹道导弹基地。
此次袭击使动荡的中东陷入新的、不可预测的冲突。伊朗已对以色列及该地区其他国家展开报复。特朗普周日警告伊朗不要报复，称如果伊朗“猛烈回击”，美国将予以“前所未见的强大力量”回应。
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此次对伊朗的打击是特朗普近几个月下令对委内瑞拉、叙利亚和尼日利亚发动打击后的又一次行动。
调查显示，56%的美国人认为总统为推进美国利益过于愿意使用军事力量。近九成民主党人、六成独立人士以及近四分之一的共和党人认为特朗普过于愿意使用军事力量。
特朗普在接受《纽约邮报》采访时强调：“这不是民调的问题。你不能让伊朗这个由疯子统治的国家拥有核武器。”
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“我认为人们实际上对正在发生的事情印象深刻，”特朗普坚持道，“我认为这是一种‘沉默的——如果你做一个真正的民调，也就是沉默的民调——这就像一个沉默的大多数。”
在此次新调查中，特朗普的整体支持率为39%，较2月中旬路透社/益普索进行的上一次民调下降了1个百分点。
保罗·施泰因豪泽是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔的政治记者，他报道全美范围内的竞选活动。
About one in four Americans, but a majority of Republicans, say they approve of the U.S. military strikes on Iran ordered by President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.
The national survey, conducted Saturday and Sunday by Reuters/Ipsos in the hours after the start of “Operation Epic Fury” by American and Israeli forces on Iran that resulted in the killing of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also indicates about half believe Trump is too willing to use military force.
Twenty-seven percent of those surveyed said they approved of the strikes, with 43% disapproving and nearly three in 10 not sure.
But there’s a partisan divide, with Republicans by a 55%-32% margin supportive of the military action. The vast majority of Democrats, 73%, disapproved of the strikes, with only seven percent saying they approved. A plurality of independents, 44%, disapproved of the military attack, with 19% supportive and nearly four in 10 unsure.
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The poll was conducted before the U.S. military announced on Sunday the first U.S. casualties in the operation — three service members killed and five more seriously wounded.
“I think that the polling is very good, but I don’t care about polling. I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done a long time ago,” Trump said in an interview Monday with the New York Post when asked about the new survey.
The joint U.S.-Israeli operation is expected to carry on for days, with officials telling Fox News that Israel is targeting Iranian leadership, while the U.S. is attacking military targets and ballistic missile sites that pose an “imminent threat.”
The attack has plunged the volatile Middle East into a new and unpredictable conflict. Iran has retaliated against Israel and other nations in the region. Trump on Sunday warned against Iranian retaliation, saying that if Iran were to “hit very hard,” they would be met with “a force that has never been seen before.”
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The attack on Iran follows strikes Trump has ordered in recent months against Venezuela, Syria, and Nigeria.
According to the poll, 56% of Americans think the president is too willing to use military force to advance U.S. interests. Nearly nine in 10 Democrats, six in 10 independents, and nearly a quarter of Republicans said Trump was too willing to use military force.
Trump, in his interview with the New York Post, emphasized that “it’s not a question of polling. You cannot let Iran, who’s a nation that has been run by crazy people, have a nuclear weapon.”
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“I think people are very impressed with what is happening, actually,” Trump insisted. “I think it’s a silent — if you did a real poll, the silent poll — and it’s like a silent majority,” the president added.
Trump’s overall approval in the new survey stands at 39%, down a point from the previous Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in mid-February.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.
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