Gates says Yemen's president appears to be reluctant to support the idea, because it would imply his government is not capable of handling the resettlement.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

We see novel things all the time and if we were not capable of learning and making guesses, educated guesses, about these novel things we would not be able to survive.

我们经常会碰到新事物,如果我们不能学习，不能猜测，不能纠正对新事物猜测,我们就无法生存。

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