America’s newfound taste for delegating military responsibilities to others is not the result of a series of events, but the product of a long-term process driven by America’s simultaneous ambivalence toward the world and active engagement with it. Is it worth fighting for a world that cannot be saved, and that only invites murky, inconclusive entanglements?
美国新出现的将军事责任授权给他人的立场并不是一系列事件的结果，而是长期过程的产物，其背后的推动力是美国同时存在的对世界和积极干预世界的矛盾心理。为不可拯救的世界做只能导致迷途、产生不了明确的决定性结果的斗争是否值得？