The United States and the Pakistani army, meanwhile, evidently believe that their sole responsibility is to keep the Taliban at bay. Indeed, only when the mass of internally displaced people swelled to 1.5 million – the worst humanitarian disaster since the Rwanda genocide – did foreign countries, including the US, decided to provide emergency aid.
与此同时，美国与巴基斯坦军方显然相信其唯一职责便是遏制塔利班势力。果然，只有当国内难民的数目涨至150万时（这是自卢旺达种族灭绝事件后最严重的人道主义灾难），包括美国在内的外国方面方才决定提供紧急援助。