Obama’s one significant foreign-policy breakthrough has been to release the US from the grip of the “global war on terror.” Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that “war” allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.
奥巴马的重大外交政策突破之一是把美国从“全球恐怖战争”的束缚中解放了出来。放弃这场对“战争”的摩尼教式的口吻，美国重新赢得了前总统小布什所丢掉的政治合法性，同时又没有降低其战略信誉。