In some recent cases, the issue has been not much more than an irritating sideshow, as when Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded an apology from the United States late last year for causing unintended civilian deaths – at the price, bizarrely, of allowing the Americans to continue defending him and his country (the US understandably refused).
近期的某些事件中，道歉问题不过是恼人的插曲，比方说阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊要求美国为去年底意外造成平民伤亡道歉——之后才能，这一点非常奇怪，允许美国继续为阿富汗和他本人提供保护（不难理解，美国拒绝了他的要求）。