The policy document declares it backs Israel's "right to self defence" in the case of the 2006 Lebanon war, and does not mention the recent Gaza incursions at all.

政策文件提到了在2006黎巴嫩战争时以色列的“自卫权”，并且根本没有提到以色列最近入侵加沙的行动。

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But some Americans worry that China could make a cold war with America a self-fulfilling prophecy by trying to acquire more of the trappings of a global military power.

但一些美国人担心中国通过尝试获得全球性军事强国的能力而实现能与美国进行冷战的预言。

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And in order to avoid that civil war it was worth subjecting one's self to absolute sovereignty.

为了避免内战，服从于某人的绝对君主王权是值得的。

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Almost a century later, America's continuing domination of cotton production led the Soviet Union, its implacable enemy in the cold war, to look for self-sufficiency in this vital crop.

ECONOMIST: Cotton

Though winning their right to self-rule in the zone set up after the Gulf war of 1991, the Kurds had to compromise too.

ECONOMIST: Do the Shias truly accept the new constitution?

So the very institutions that suffer from this war also lobby to keep waging it out of institutional self-preservation.

FORBES: A Critique of Power