2026年8月19日 美国东部时间下午3:16 / 福克斯新闻
白宫发言人在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中称肯特“完全不分是非”
作者：亚历克斯·尼茨伯格 福克斯新闻
发布于 2026年8月19日 下午3:16 美国东部时间 | 更新于 2026年8月19日 下午3:17 美国东部时间
前反恐中心负责人乔·肯特阐释其反对伊朗战争的立场，并谈及打造“政治联盟”的目标
前国家反恐中心主任乔·肯特谈及他对伊朗战争的反对态度，主张唐纳德·特朗普总统应“抽身”这场冲突，并谈到他助力组建“政治联盟”的抱负。
因反对伊朗战争于3月辞职的前国家反恐中心主任乔·肯特认为，唐纳德·特朗普总统应将美国作战部队撤出中东。在周二接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，他表示共和党和民主党都支持美国卷入“无休止的海外战争”，但他希望帮助组建另一个“政治联盟”。
肯特是一名退伍军人，同时也是“金星家属”（指阵亡军人家属），已故妻子香农于2019年在叙利亚遇害，这让他切身感受到战争的严重后果。他表示，美国正在“将我们的部队基本变成绊网，这样一来，如果伊朗袭击我们，造成更多美军伤亡，我们就不得不加倍投入战争”。
“这场战争不符合我们的国家安全利益，”他说。“伊朗并未构成迫在眉睫的威胁，”这位退役绿色贝雷帽士兵强调道，并重申了他在3月中旬辞职信中向总统表达的相同观点——就在伊朗战争爆发不到一个月后。“这场战争是由以色列对特朗普政府施加的压力，以及以色列对我国政府的影响力所引发的。”
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他表示，该地区的美军基地已被证明是一个负担。
“伊朗能够用弹道导弹和无人机袭击我们的基地。我们不得不撤离基地，甚至无法依托军事基地作战。所以根本问题在于，一个你无法依托其作战的军事基地有什么用？因此，我们在该地区的基地和存在，实际上只是给了伊朗随时袭击我们的能力，”肯特断言。
前反恐官员乔·肯特持续呼吁美军从中东撤军
2025年12月11日周四，华盛顿特区，时任国家反恐中心主任约瑟夫·肯特在众议院国土安全委员会听证会上作证。（丹尼尔·奥尔/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
特朗普与以色列联手发动对伊朗战争已过去五个多月。目前美军正对伊朗实施封锁，冲突何时结束仍不明朗。
“如今，特朗普总统可以抽身而出。我们最近没有遭受任何损失，”肯特说，并补充道总统可以从该地区撤出美军。“我认为他有政治能力将这场撤军包装成一场胜利，至少也算作平局，向美国民众交代。”
肯特表示，他会鼓励认同他观点的人“致电他们的国会议员、参议员以及白宫”，并告诉他们“我们希望立即结束战争”。
周三，在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中，白宫发言人戴维斯·英格尔对肯特进行了抨击。
“特朗普总统已经摧毁了伊朗几乎所有的军事能力，并用世界历史上最强大的海军封锁压垮了其本就糟糕的经济。在这个‘半途而废的乔·肯特’扭曲的思维里，这竟然意味着伊朗正在获胜，这只能证明他完全不分是非，”英格尔在声明中说道。
特朗普可即刻宣布伊朗战争胜利并撤军，前反恐官员辩称
2026年8月9日，新泽西州莫里斯敦，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在莫里斯敦机场登上空军一号。特朗普周末在新泽西州贝德明斯特的高尔夫俱乐部度过。（埃里克·李/盖蒂图片社）
当被问及是否有兴趣再次竞选公职时，曾两次竞选国会失利的肯特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他“没有政治抱负”。
但他表示，他希望帮助组建一个“政治联盟”，向美国民众传递这样一个信息：“无论他们投票给谁，生活质量都没有提高”，原因是无论谁入主 Oval Office（椭圆形办公室，代指美国总统职位），我们的大量时间、金钱和民族意志都被消耗在“这些海外战争”以及“扶植一个对美国民众毫无益处的帝国”上。
两党“都一致认为我们应该卷入……无休止的海外战争”，他说。
当美国人在共和党和民主党之间做出选择时，最终得到的只会是“下一场战争”、“更多赤字”、“更多债务”，以及“公民自由……受到侵蚀”，他说。
特朗普称伊朗和谈已破裂，坚称霍尔木兹海峡“畅通无阻”
2025年12月11日，华盛顿特区，时任国家反恐中心主任约瑟夫·肯特在坎农众议院办公楼出席众议院国土安全委员会听证会。（安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社）
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肯特表示，考虑到国家债务、通货膨胀和经济状况，美国无力承担对外援助，但如果确实要发放对外援助，他认为应该给到“真正有利于我国国家安全的伙伴，而不是那些会将我们进一步拖入更多冲突的国家”——这些国家“最终会在长期内让美国付出更多代价”。
他表示，美国不应向“像以色列那样 actively spying on us and running influence operations（ actively spying on us and running influence operations 此处原文未提供对应中文官方译法，建议保留英文原文或译为“ actively spying on us and running influence operations”）的国家”提供援助。
亚历克斯·尼茨伯格是福克斯新闻数字频道撰稿人。
Ex-counterterrorism chief advocates for Trump to ‘walk away from’ Iran war, yank troops out of Middle East
2026-08-19 3:16pm EDT / Fox News
A White House spokesman said in a statement to Fox News Digital that Kent ‘doesn’t know his ass from his elbow’
By Alex Nitzberg Fox News
Published August 19, 2026 3:16pm EDT | Updated August 19, 2026 3:17pm EDT
Ex-counterterror official Joe Kent explains his opposition to the Iran war and discusses his goal to help forge a ‘political coalition’
Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent discusses his opposition to the Iran war, contends that President Donald Trump should ‘walk away’ from the conflict, and speaks about his aspirations to help create a “political coalition.”
Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned in March due to his opposition to the Iran war, contends that President Donald Trump should remove U.S. combat troops from the Middle East. During an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, he said Republicans and Democrats both support U.S. involvement in “endless foreign wars,” but that he wants to help create another “political coalition.”
Kent, a military veteran and gold star husband who personally grasps the grave consequences of war because his late wife Shannon was killed in Syria in 2019, said that the U.S. is “making our troops basically tripwires so that if the Iranians hit us, and we lose more troops, then we will have to double down” on the war.
“This war is not in our national security interest,” he said. “Iran posed no imminent threat,” the retired Green Beret asserted, reiterating the same view he voiced in his mid-March resignation letter to the president less than a month after the start of the Iran war. “This war was prompted by the pressure that the Israelis were able to exert on the Trump administration and the influence that the, the Israelis have over our government.”
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U.S. bases in the region have proven to be a liability, he said.
“The Iranians were able to hit them with their ballistic missiles, with their drones. We had to evacuate our bases. We couldn’t even fight a war from our military bases. So the fundamental question is, what good is a military base that you can’t fight a war from? So really our bases and our presence in the region simply give the Iranians the ability to reach us and strike us whenever they want,” Kent asserted.
EX-COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIAL JOE KENT CONTINUES CALLING FOR US MILITARY WITHDRAWAL FROM MIDDLE EAST
Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
More than five months have passed since Trump launched the war against Iran in conjunction with Israel. The U.S. military is currently conducting a blockade against Iran and it remains unclear when the conflict will conclude.
“Right now, we’re at a place where President Trump could walk away from it. We haven’t recently taken any losses,” Kent said, adding that the president could withdraw U.S. troops from the region. “And I think he has the political power to basically sell it as a win or at least kind of a draw to the American people.”
Kent said he would encourage those who agree with him to “call their congressmen, call their senators, call the White House and” tell them “that we want out of war right now.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, White House spokesman Davis Ingle targeted Kent.
“President Trump has destroyed nearly all of Iran’s military capabilities and is crushing what’s left of its abysmal economy with the most powerful naval blockade in world history. In quitter Joe Kent’s twisted mind, that somehow means Iran is winning, which only proves he doesn’t know his ass from his elbow,” Ingle said in the statement.
TRUMP CAN DECLARE IRAN VICTORY NOW AND WITHDRAW TROOPS, FORMER COUNTERTERROR OFFICIAL ARGUES
U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on August 9, 2026 at Morristown Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. President Trump spent the weekend at his Bedminster, N.J. golf club.(Eric Lee/Getty Images)
Asked whether he has any interest in running for political office again, Kent, who has run unsuccessfully for Congress twice, told Fox News Digital that he does not “have any political aspirations.”
But he said that he wants to help construct a “political coalition” that conveys to Americans “that a reason why it seems like no matter who they vote for their, their quality of life is not improving,” is because no matter who occupies the Oval Office, much of “their time and our money … and our national will” is expended “on these foreign wars,” and “propping up an empire that does not benefit the American people.”
Both parties “agree that we should be engaged in … endless foreign wars,” he said.
When Americans choose between a Republican and Democrat, they end up with “the next war,” “more deficit,” “more debt,” and have “their civil liberties … encroached upon,” he said.
TRUMP SAYS IRAN TALKS ARE DEAD, INSISTS STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS ‘OPEN AND OPERATING’
Then-Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security in the Cannon House Office Building on Dec. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Kent said the U.S. cannot afford to dole out foreign aid, given the national debt, inflation, and the condition of the economy — but if foreign aid is going to be distributed, he said that it should go “to partners that actually benefit our nation’s security, not to countries that are gonna drag us further into more conflicts” which “actually end up costing America more in the long run.”
He said the U.S. should not provide aid to nations “that are actively spying on us and running influence operations like the Israelis are.”
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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