Today, the nearly bankrupt United States is spending hundreds of billons annually waging small wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and the Sahara.

今天，濒临破产的美国，每年在阿富汗，伊拉克，索马里，也门，以及撒哈拉的小型的战争中花掉几百亿美金。

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Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on the assumption that he would be the president who got the United States out of the wars in the greater Middle East that had cause so much dissent during the Bush presidency.

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From the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, despite stockmarket crashes, wars and recessions, the rate of serious crime in the United States barely changed from year to year.

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Some of the demonstrators carried signs harshly critical of the United States, with such messages as "America is the sponsor of destruction and wars" and "We will not submit to terrorism, " according to scenes shown on Syrian state television.

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