In Bush’s second term, some of the most extreme unilateralists have departed from the government, and the president has approached difficult problems like North Korea or Iran with a more multilateral approach than during his first term. Likewise, for all the complaints about the United Nations, the US and others turned to UN peacekeepers to sort out the mess after the Lebanon War last summer.
幸运的是，这个钟摆现在又开始滑向合作。在布什的第二任期，一些最极端的单边主义者离开了政府，而总统本人在处理北朝鲜或伊朗等更复杂的问题时也采用了比在第一个任期更为多边的策略。同样，针对关于联合国的所有抱怨，美国和其它国家都通过联合国维和部队来收拾去年夏天黎巴嫩战争留下的烂摊子。