“I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end,” Donald Trump promised a crowd in Pennsylvania in 2024. While the disastrous conflict in Iran, which has escalated in recent days, may make it seem like the president has reneged(食言，背弃承诺) on that promise, that’s inaccurate. It would be wrong to say that the president has dragged the US into yet another disastrous forever war in the Middle East because, as government officials keep insisting, what’s happening in Iran isn’t actually a war.(说总统把美国拖入中东又一场灾难性的永久战争，是不对的，因为正如政府官员一再坚称的那样，伊朗正在发生的事其实并不是一场战争。)
“我不会把你们送去那些愚蠢、没完没了的外国战争中送死，”唐纳德·特朗普2024年在宾夕法尼亚州对一群支持者承诺道。伊朗那场灾难性的冲突近日不断升级，看上去总统似乎背弃了那个承诺，但这么说并不准确。说总统把美国拖入了中东又一场灾难性的永久战争，是不对的，因为正如政府官员一再坚称的那样，伊朗正在发生的事其实并不是一场战争。
“I wouldn’t call it a war,” JD Vance told reporters early this month, for example, after being asked whether the fighting in Iran might be over by the November midterms(中期选举). “Right now, there is no active shooting(正在进行的交火).”
“我不会把它称为战争，”例如，JD·万斯本月早些时候在被问及伊朗战事是否可能在11月中期选举前结束时，这样告诉记者。“眼下并没有正在进行的交火。”
Maybe not, but there has been quite a bit of(相当多的) active bombing. Earlier this month, a US missile strike hit a wedding at a private home in southern Iran, killing at least four people, including a four-year-old child and a 16-year-old. That’s fairly restrained(克制的) compared to the massacre(屠杀，惨案) in March when a US precision-guided(精确制导的) missile hit an elementary school in Iran, killing 150 people, including 120 children, but it’s still something I would personally file under(把……归入) “possible war crimes”.
也许没有，但轰炸可没少进行。本月早些时候，一枚美国导弹袭击了伊朗南部一处私宅的婚礼，造成至少四人死亡，其中包括一名四岁儿童和一名十六岁少年。与三月的惨案相比，这还算克制——当时一枚美国精确制导导弹击中伊朗一所小学，造成150人死亡，其中包括120名儿童——但这仍然是我个人会归入“可能的战争罪”一类的事情。