MEXICO CITY – Shortly before America’s elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joseph Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a “generated” international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union “tested” John F. Kennedy shortly after he assumed office. Biden did not point to a specific region of the world, but mentioned the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, and Russia as the likeliest sources of trouble for the new president.
墨西哥城－就在美国去年十一月大选之前，当时的副总统候选人约瑟夫·拜登（Joseph Biden）因为预言奥巴马政府几乎肯定会受到他所谓的“造成”的国际危机的考验，而且受到考验的方式和约翰·肯尼迪任职后不久所受到的苏联的考验的方式非常相似，而遭到了广泛的批评。拜登没有具体指出世界上的某个地区，但是提到中东、印度次大陆以及俄罗斯最有可能是给新总统制造麻烦的源头。