At home he is about as popular as Richard Nixon at the depths of the Watergate scandal (see chart 1); abroad he is seen as a war-mongering buffoon.

在国内，他的民意支持率变化与水门事件发生时理查德·尼克松的呈相同的趋势(见表1)；在国际上，他却是战争的始作俑者。

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