Are Americans specially blessed, or just lucky? Now that the US has at last begun to move, gradually and thoughtfully, away from the passions that characterized the country’s response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it is worth asking if Bill Clinton was right to say that America’s virtues and assets always prevail against its vices and defects.
美国人为何如此善于领导？是美国人得上天眷顾，或只是侥幸？如今美国人最终开始逐渐理性地从那种导致了2001年“9·11”袭击后反应的情绪中走出来，是否真像比尔·克林顿曾说的那样：美国人的美德和优点总能压倒其恶习与缺陷?