In fact, the worldviews that de Gaulle and Churchill established for their countries turned out to be a little too influential. Their successors continued to perceive the world – and their countries’ role in it – in ways that constrained rational discussion and distorted decision-making for years.
与英国首相温斯顿·丘吉尔类似，戴高乐赋予法国人新的世界观，奠定了他们在战后全球秩序中的地位。事实上，戴高乐和丘吉尔确立本国世界观的最终影响都有些过大。他们的继任者多年后仍以制约理性探讨和扭曲决策的方式来看待世界——以及本国所发挥的作用。结果是两国之后的领导人再也未能取得能与两位伟大领袖媲美的成就。