More important, Western leaders must comprehend the danger of picking sides. And that means that they must stop ignoring the lessons of the campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980’s, which facilitated the Taliban’s rise to power, and the intervention in Libya in 2011, which produced a weak and divided government that remains locked in a power struggle with Islamist militias.
更重要的是，西方领导人必须理解站边的危险。这意味着他们不能再忽视20世纪80年代阿富汗的教训了，当年的错误导致塔利班力量的崛起；还有2011年对利比亚的干预，其结果是产生了孱弱而分裂的政府，至今仍被各伊斯兰军事势力玩弄于鼓掌之间。