北卡罗来纳州费耶特维尔——不发动对外战争是唐纳德·特朗普2024年竞选纲领的核心主张之一。在北卡罗来纳州，这里坐落着美国人口最多的军事基地布拉格堡，人们把这一被打破的承诺视为针对自己的背叛。
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A promise not to start foreign wars was a central plank of Donald Trump’s 2024 platform. In North Carolina, home to the nation’s most populous military base, Fort Bragg, people have taken that broken promise personally.
48岁的伊丽莎白·博恩来自斯特德曼，她在2016年、2020年和2024年都投票支持了特朗普。但到了2026年，她18岁的儿子科尔比即将在毕业后加入海军，她对自己的支持感到后悔。
Elizabeth Boahn, 48, from Stedman, voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. But in 2026, with her 18-year-old son, Colby, on the verge of joining the Navy after graduation, she’s regretting her support.
“这让人心碎。我只是，我祈祷他不用去那边，”博恩说，她指的是中东。
“It’s heartbreaking. I just, I pray that he doesn’t have to go over there,” said Boahn, referring to the Middle East.
“这是我爷爷教我的，他是一名海军陆战队员。跟人握手时，你要看着对方的眼睛。如果他们做不到，你就不能信任他们……要做个言而有信的人，”博恩说。当被问及她是否认为特朗普是个言而有信的人时，她说：“不。”
“My granddaddy taught me this, and he was a Marine. When you shake a man’s hand, you look him in the eye. If they can’t, you don’t trust them … be a man of your word,” Boahn said. Asked if she considered Trump a man of his word, she said, “Nope.”
当被问及与伊朗的战争如何影响了她的生活时，博恩说，“它快要夺走我的儿子了……才18岁，甚至还没真正开始生活。”她对总统有一番毫不客气的话。“他跑到那边发动战争，这正在摧毁我们的经济。这造成了我生活的艰难，”她说。
Asked how the war with Iran had affected her life, Boahn said, “it’s on the verge of taking my son away … 18 years old, hasn’t even really begun to live a life.”She had choice words for the president. “He’s going over there and starting wars, that is destroying our economy. It’s causing my struggle of living,” she said.
博恩对总统违背承诺的失望，与一些接受MS NOW采访的老兵对特朗普未能置身于对外军事冲突之外一事的看法形成了对比。
Boahn’s frustration with the president’s broken promise stood in contrast to how some veterans who spoke to MS NOW reflected on Trump’s failure to stay out of foreign military conflicts.
查德·麦基翁在2024年投票支持了特朗普，他在陆军服役20年，曾被派往阿富汗和伊拉克。回国后，他创办了Kraken Customs，一家强调雇用老兵的汽车车身修理厂。
Chad McKeown, who voted for Trump in 2024, served in the Army for 20 years and deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. After returning home, he started Kraken Customs, an auto body shop that emphasizes hiring veterans.
麦基翁承认与伊朗的战争带来了代价。“这整件事就是一场经济噩梦，”这位45岁的企业家说，他表示尽管面临不利因素，自己的生意仍然不错。
McKeown acknowledged the costs of the war with Iran. “This whole thing is an economic nightmare,” said the 45-year-old entrepreneur, who said his business is still doing well despite the headwinds.
但当被问及他对这场战争本身的看法时，麦基翁说，不质疑总司令的命令是军队文化的一部分。
But asked about his thoughts on the war itself, McKeown said it’s part of the military’s culture not to question orders from the commander in chief.
他说：“当你在军中为国冒生命危险——无论是陆军、空军、海军、海军陆战队，还是现在的太空军——你都会学会如何在上级面前保持谦卑。”
“When you put your life on the line for your country in the service — whether it’s Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, now Space Force — you learn how to humble yourself amongst those that are appointed above you,” he said.
他说：“一旦你站到反对他们的一边，或者变成一个影子州长，你就是在损害我们本应共同捍卫的东西。”
“The moment you get on the side of naysaying them or becoming a shadow governor, you are discrediting what we’re all supposed to be standing for,” he said.
来自范德的陆军退伍军人玛丽·汉普顿曾三次投票给特朗普，她也认同这种服从态度。“我希望我们的部队回家吗？是的，我当然希望。但我必须把这些决定留给目前掌权的其他领导人，”她说。
Mary Hampton, an Army veteran from Vander who voted for Trump three times, echoed that deference. “Do I want our troops home? Yes, I do, absolutely. But I’ve got to leave those decisions to other leaders that are in charge right now,” she said.
陆军退伍军人里根·胡安的血脉里流淌着军旅传统。她的祖父唐·菲尼是美国陆军著名的精锐特种作战部队三角洲部队的创始成员之一。以罗纳德·里根总统命名的胡安说，她在2024年投票给特朗普，唯一原因就是他承诺不发动任何对外战争。
Reagan Juan, an Army veteran, has service in her blood. Her grandfather, Don Feeney, is one of the original members of Delta Force, the prestigious elite U.S. Army special operations unit. Juan, who was named after President Ronald Reagan, said she voted for Trump in 2024 solely because of his promise not to start any foreign wars.
“这是一个如此重大的承诺。我们承诺的不是为教育提供更多资金，也不是减税。这关乎人们的生命，我们真实的生命，”胡安的丈夫也曾在军队服役，她说。
“That’s such a big promise. We’re not just promising, you know, more funding for education, or we’re not promising tax cuts. This is people’s lives, our real lives,” said Juan, whose husband also served in the military.
“需要有更多的制衡。需要有更多的监督。需要对实际情况有更多的透明度，”胡安说。“需要有一个明确的最终目标。需要有一个明确的退出战略。如果我们做不到这一点，我不知道我们在那里做什么，”她说。
“There needs to be way more checks and balances. There needs to be more oversight. There needs to be more transparency in what is actually going on,” Juan said. “There needs to be a clear end state. There needs to be a clear exit strategy. If we aren’t doing that, I don’t know what we’re doing out there,” she said.
胡安说，她为自己投票给特朗普感到“羞耻”，并多次将伊朗战争称为“鲁莽”之举。埃隆大学在2026年3月、即战争爆发后不久进行的一项民调发现，51%的北卡罗来纳州选民反对美国军事介入伊朗。埃隆大学9月进行的一项更近期的民调发现，这一数字几乎没有变化，52%的登记选民不赞成这场战争。这低于该议题上的全国民调平均水平：皮尤10月的一项民调发现，65%的美国人不赞成总统对这场冲突的处理方式。
Juan said she feels “shame” for voting for Trump and repeatedly described the war in Iran as “reckless.”An Elon University poll from March 2026, shortly after the war began, found that 51% of North Carolina voters opposed military involvement in Iran. A more recent poll from Elon University in September found that number virtually unchanged, with 52% of registered voters disapproving of the war. That is lower than national polling averages on the issue: An October Pew poll found 65% of Americans disapproving of the president’s handling of the conflict.
这场战争持续得越久，杰森·布鲁顿就越不耐烦。布鲁顿是一家汽车车身修理厂的加盟商，曾三次投票给特朗普。
The longer this war has gone on, the less patient Jason Bruton has become. Bruton, an auto body shop franchisee, voted for Trump three times.
“伊朗战争拖得太久了。一开始我是支持的，当时我以为这会是一场为期一个月的战争，”他说。五角大楼估计，这场战争已耗资超过470亿美元，布鲁顿认为这笔投资不会带来回报。
“The war in Iran is dragging on too long. I was supportive of it in the beginning when I thought it would be like a monthlong war,” he said. The Pentagon estimated that the war has cost more than $47 billion dollars, an investment Bruton doesn’t think will pay dividends.
“我的配送费用几乎翻了一番。我的价格已经上涨，但我的利润率保持不变，甚至更低，因为我自己吸收了一部分经营成本，以帮助留住我的客户，”布鲁顿说。
“My delivery expense has nearly doubled. My prices have been inflated, but my margins have remained the same, or less, because I’m absorbing some of the cost of doing business and to help keep my customers,” Bruton said.