Zhou Enlai’s supposed judgment on the French Revolution has always looked unbeatable for magisterial long-termism. “Too soon to tell,” the Chinese premier is meant to have said, with an unelected leader’s freedom to wait. How striking, then, to see a chamber as democratic as the US Senate better his epigram at last. In a motion about Syria and Afghanistan, a bipartisan supermajority of 68 Senators has warned against the “precipitous withdrawal of United States forces from either country”.
據說中國總理周恩來曾對法國大革命下這樣的判斷：「現在下結論還爲時太早。」這句判斷所體現的長遠眼光似乎是永遠無人能及的。作爲一個未經選舉產生的領導人，周恩來擁有等待的自由。因此，看到一個像美國參議院這樣民主的議院比他還看得長遠，是多麼令人震驚。在一項關於敘利亞和阿富汗的動議中，佔絕對多數的68名兩黨參議員警告不要「貿然從這兩個國家撤軍」。
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