More fundamentally, reducing US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan will permit a rebalancing of US foreign and defense policy. The two conflicts have absorbed a disproportionate share of the country’s resources – military and economic to be sure, but also the time and attention of policymakers and diplomats.
更根本的是，减少美国对伊拉克和阿富汗的介入将可以令美国的外交和国防政策重新实现平衡。两场冲突都过多地消耗了这个国家的资源——其中当然有军事和经济资源，还包括了政策制定者和外交人员的时间和精力。