书中托克维尔谈到,美国公共生活的主导人物自制力低下,有时不够正直,最重要的是他们没有受过良好教育;美国“极度膨胀的骄傲”正在培育军事上的“冒险主义”;美国大地上到处蔓延着“尚古主义”。
Public life was dominated by people who lacked “moderation, sometimes probity, above all education”. America’s sense of “exaggerated pride in its strength” was promoting military adventurism.
但是,无论是财力或者军事上的外援,也许都不足以保证在约翰逊•瑟利夫领导下的利比里亚可以保持一帆风顺。
But foreign aid, in the form of money or military men, may not be enough to ensure that Liberia under Ms Johnson Sirleaf stays on an even keel.
甫一上任,他就鼓吹昆都士的空袭是军事上“合适”的,尽管死亡人数非常惊人。
On taking office he called the Kunduz airstrike militarily "appropriate" despite its horrific death toll.
This becomes a very, very large issue because the notion that there should be a real connection between citizenship in the full sense and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean, the Greeks just totally accept that idea.
这是一个很大的问题,因为完全意义上的公民,和参与军事行动是相联系的,这个观念完全是希腊式的,我指的是,被希腊人广泛接受的观念
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