Anti-war demonstrations broke out in many places in the United States, and demonstrators called for ＂the United States to withdraw from the Middle East.＂

　　"In order to effectively respond to the repercussions of the attack on Soleimani, Trump needs the support of the American people, but now it seems that this task is very arduous." Kelly Magsamen, center for american progress’s vice president in charge of national security and international policy, said that the former US President George W. Bush and the director in charge of Iran affairs of the US National Security Council during the Obama administration recently wrote an article in the US Foreign Policy magazine expressing her concern.

　　Demonstrators called for "the United States to withdraw from the Middle East"

　　According to American media reports, although the Trump administration keeps saying that the air raid on Soleimani is to protect the lives of the American people, the American people don’t seem to buy it. Republican bosses on Capitol Hill praised the "rationality" of Trump’s order to kill Iranian general Soleimani, but the American people didn’t seem to think so. On January 4th, many anti-government demonstrations broke out in several American cities, including Washington, new york, Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles. People shouted slogans against "The Trump administration brought the United States into the war with Iran".

　　According to Fox News, since Soleimani was killed, anti-war protests broke out in more than 70 cities across the United States on January 4th. An American anti-war alliance called "Stop the War Now and End Racism" has launched dozens of planned protests across the country. The alliance and the anti-war group Pink Code, which is led by women, issued a statement saying: "Unless Americans rise up and stop it, this war will sweep across the whole region and may soon evolve into a global conflict with unpredictable scope and extremely serious consequences." Agence France-Presse reported that about 200 people gathered in lafayette Square, north of the White House, chanting the slogan "We will not let our country fall into another reckless war." USA-Today reported that about 200 demonstrators shouted outside the Trump Tower in Chicago, "Without justice, there will be no peace, and the United States will withdraw from the Middle East." Demonstrators held signs that read, "Stop bombing Iraq, and American troops will withdraw from Iraq." According to the new york Daily News, about 250 people gathered in new york Times Square in foggy weather and told Trump that "the American people don’t want war". A 34-year-old nurse assistant named Gonzalez said, "Trump should try to deal with the problems of poverty reduction and racism in the United States, rather than waging war abroad. "She further said," Latin America, Afghanistan, Iraq — — Enough! There are still millions of poor people in the United States, and we must find a way to solve our own problems first. " In Boston, a group called "Massachusetts Peace Action Organization" organized hundreds of protesters to take to the streets and give speeches. Their placards read, "Don’t go to war with Iran, invest money in employment and education instead of war and occupation." Demonstrators suggested that candidates and congressmen participating in the US presidential election in 2020 should speak out against the current crisis. Protesters also called on Congress to take urgent action.

　　Anxiety and doubt in the atmosphere of war

　　The news that President Trump announced that he would send thousands more American soldiers to the Middle East caused an uproar among young Americans. According to media reports, according to American law, all American men between the ages of 18 and 25 need to apply for military service registration in case of government conscription. "The Middle East War is overcast", which makes young men of school age in the United States afraid of being drafted into the army. According to CNN, a large number of young Americans flocked to the recruitment website to find out whether they would be recruited and how to avoid it. Due to the excessive number of consultants and traffic overload, the website of the military service registration Bureau of the United States was once paralyzed.

　　Many American experts and scholars are asking a question — — Is this useful? Tamara Witz, a senior researcher at the Middle East Policy Center of the Brookings Institution in the United States, questioned this: "The Trump administration asserted that the assassination of Soleimani by the US military prevented an imminent Iranian attack on the United States, but how can this be proved? The death of Soleimani will immediately bring the risk of escalating the conflict between the United States and Iraq — — Is this decision correct? " The American people also have doubts about this. During the protests on January 4th, many people criticized the Trump administration for killing Soleimani without consulting Congress, saying it was illegal. Kelly Magsamen analyzed in the article: "In the following days, Trump and his team need to gain the trust of the American people and convince the people that the Trump administration’s intelligence report proves the correctness of the US air strikes against Soleimani, but this is not an easy task for any US president after the Iraq war."

　　Judging from the large-scale anti-war demonstrations, the American people have long been tired of war. According to Fox News, a protester in Times Square told the media: "Why does the United States constantly interfere in other countries and fight with other countries because war is profitable, and destruction and death are profitable? This is all that the United States (empire) is concerned about, and it values profit more than human life."

　　The American media believe that the assassination of Soleimani made the American people suddenly feel the dangerous atmosphere of war. Although Iran is far from the United States in overall military strength, it has strong asymmetric combat capability. From this perspective, not only in the Middle East, but also at home, the United States has the possibility of being retaliated by Iran. Kelly Magsamen believes that Americans are not so safe now because Trump killed Soleimani. Because tactical "decapitation" can’t solve the Iranian problem, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps not only still exists, but also the possibility of attacking American interests will rise. In short, the United States is once again in the predicament of intensifying military conflicts in the Middle East, and the American people may have to bear the consequences in the days to come.