RoryStewart_2011G是时候去结束在阿富汗的战争了.docxVIP

1.The question today is not: Why did we invade Afghanistan? 在今天我们的问题不是： 为什么我们要侵略阿富汗？2.The question is: why are we still in Afghanistan one decade later? 真正的问题是： 十年之后，为什么我们仍然 呆在那儿？3.Why are we spending $135 billion? 为什么我们花费 1350亿美金？4.Why have we got 130,000 troops on the ground? 为什么我们仍然有13万地面部队？5.Why were more people killed last month than in any preceding month of this conflict? 为什么在 上个月被杀的人 比这次冲突之前的 任何一个月都要多？6.How has this happened? 这为什么会发生？7.The last 20 years has been the age of intervention, and Afghanistan is simply one act in a five-act tragedy. 过去的20年 已经成为了介入干预的20年 并且阿富汗只是 五个灾难当中的其中一个。8.We came out of the end of the Cold War in despair. 我们绝望的 走出了冷战。9.We faced Rwanda; we faced Bosnia, and then we rediscovered our confidence. 我们面对卢旺达内战； 我们面对波黑战争； 然后我们重新找到了我们的自信。10.In the third act, we went into Bosnia and Kosovo and we seemed to succeed. 在第三个行动中，我们进入了波斯尼亚和科索沃 并且我们看起来似乎成功干预了。11.In the fourth act, with our hubris, our overconfidence developing, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the fifth act, we plunged into a humiliating mess. 在第四个行动中，我们带着傲慢， 和我们过度的自负 入侵了伊拉克和阿富汗。 在第五个行动中， 我们深陷令人蒙羞的困境。12.So the question is: What are we doing? 所以真正的问题是：我们到底在干什么？13.Why are we still stuck in Afghanistan? 为什么我们仍然被困在阿富汗？14.And the answer, of course, that we keep being given is as follows: were told that we went into Afghanistan because of 9/11, and that we remain there 当然，我们 被给予的答案是 以下几个。 我们说我们进入阿富汗 是因为9/11事件 并且我们仍然呆在那里15.because the Taliban poses an existential threat to global security. 因为塔利班对国际安全 构成了生死存亡的威胁。16.In the words of President Obama, If the Taliban take over again, they will invite back Al-Qaeda, who will try to kill as many of our people 引用奥巴马总统的话说， “如果塔利班夺回主权的话， 他们会把基地组织请回来， 他们会杀掉17.as they possibly can. 他们能杀掉的所有人。”18.The story that were told is that there was a light footprint initially -- in other words, that we ended up in a situation where we didnt have enough troops, 我们被告知的故事 在一开始就是一个缺少充分的理由