That is why Abe is determined to amend, or at least reinterpret, Japan’s constitution to allow for the kinds of defense maneuvers that other countries, from Israel to India, employ when their people are threatened. As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once put it, a constitution is not a suicide pact.
政府无法保护本国人民是难以接受的。因此，安倍决心更改——或至少重新解释——日本宪法，以允许采取从以色列到印度诸国在人民受到威胁时所采取的防卫行动。美国最高法院法官杰克逊（Robert Jackson）曾说，宪法绝不是自杀契约。