Something puzzling just happened in Washington: a liberal American president who opposed the invasion of Iraq endorsed one of its chief neoconservative advocates. By embracing Robert Kagan’s essay, “The Myth of America’s Decline”, Barack Obama has done the author a turn. The essay is excerpted from Mr Kagan’s book, The World that America Made, which comes out later this month.
華盛頓最近發(fā)生了一件讓人困惑的事:一位反對入侵伊拉克的自由派美國總統(tǒng),對一位新保守主義學(xué)者、同時也是入侵伊拉克的主要支持者之一予以了認(rèn)可。巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)肯定了羅伯特?卡根(Robert Kagan)的文章——《美國衰落之謎》(The Myth of America’s Decline),他對這位作者的態(tài)度也因此有了180度的轉(zhuǎn)變。這篇文章摘自卡根所著的《美國制造的世界》(The World that America Made),該書將于本月晚些時候出版。