我们必须牢记，就像伊拉克一样，阿富汗不是一场经典的消耗战——它是一场反游击战争，而且它不能仅仅依靠军事手段来取得胜利。

We must remember that Afghanistan, just as Iraq, is not a classic war of attrition—this is counter-insurgency, and it will not be won by military means alone.

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我是在越南时听到这个故事的，而且它是被当作真事告诉我的。虽然我无法确认它是否属实，但我却知道，在战争中，比这更离奇的事情都发生过。

I heard this story when I was in Vietnam, and it was told to me as fact. I have no way of knowing for sure that it is true, but I do know that stranger things have happened in war.

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重要的一点是，英语世界对于同样的一场战争有着截然不同的记忆：它是一场悲剧，但它不会给人们带来耻辱感，提起它也不会令人们感到自己曾经是多么的无能。

It matters a lot that the Anglo-Saxon world has a different memory of that same war: it is a tragic event, but not a cause for shame, nor a reminder of impotence.

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I think it's a battle of ideas and that's then a battle of networks and movements.

我认为这是一场观点的战争,它还是一场网络组织和运动的战争。

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and how it's developed, how it got damaged by war.

它是如何发展的，它是如何被战争摧残的。

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We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."

我们同样也思考事实上战争，只是一场狂欢，尽管它有可能,是由一个毫不重要难以追踪的“一些害虫“引起的“

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