But the critical process that is at the core of an open society – which the US abandoned for eighteen months after September 11, 2001 – cannot be forsaken. That absence of self-criticism is what led America into the Iraq quagmire.
但开放社会核心的重要程序¾2001年9月11日以来被美国放弃已有18个月了¾绝不能被彻底地抛弃。正是这种自我批评的缺失使美国陷进了伊拉克问题的泥沼。