If there is one thing Americans should have learnt from their recent wars, it is that they do not have the wisdom, resources or staying power to dictate political outcomes. Not long ago Washington aspired to build prosperous democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Today it would be satisfied if they simply hung together as countries. President Barack Obama says the US should recognise that the world is “messy”. His strategy has been to avoid doing “stupid stuff”.
如果美國人應該從最近的戰爭中學到一件事情，那就是他們沒有控制政治結果所需的智慧、資源或者持久力。不久前，華盛頓方面希望在阿富汗和伊拉克建立繁榮的民主國家。現在，只要這兩個國家還能保持統一，美國就很滿意了。美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)說，美國應該認識到世界是「混亂」的，他的策略就是避免做「愚蠢的事情」。
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