After all, as time passed, the ostensibly pragmatic clientelism of the Cold War proved far from ideal. Indeed, in many cases – the Shah of Iran, Cambodia’s Lon Nol, Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Mobutu Sese Seko, to name a few – it led to long-term insecurity and disorder.
经验本该推动西方领导人走向相反的方向。毕竟，随着时间的推移，事实证明貌似务实的冷战庇护主义其实远远不够理想。事实上，在很多情况下——比如伊朗国王，柬埔寨的朗诺，智利的奥古斯托·皮诺切特和刚果民主共和国的蒙博托——冷战庇护主义都造成了长期动荡和混乱的后果。