To be fair to the US, such double standards abound among other major powers as well. Russia’s invocation of the “responsibility to protect” to justify its 2008 invasion of Georgia was met with incredulity at the time, and rendered even more cynical by its resolute failure since 2011 to condemn the Syrian regime for mass-atrocity crimes against its own people.
平心而论，美国的这些双重标准在其他大国身上也存在。2008年俄罗斯借口“保护责任”入侵格鲁吉亚就受到了质疑，而自2011年以来，俄罗斯断然拒绝谴责叙利亚政府对本国人民犯下了严重大规模伤害罪行，这引起了更多的抨击。