What followed was a decade of scattershot foreign policy marked by notable cases of inaction, together with individual initiatives taken largely without reference to a broader doctrine. Unchallenged in the world’s unipolar moment, the US had the luxury of not knowing its strategic goals.
随后的十年是外交政策漫无目的的十年，不作为和不参考更广泛的看法一意孤行的例子比比皆是。在单极时代，美国没有对手，可以奢侈地无需考虑战略目标。