At the end of the first world war Marshal Foch famously observed that the Versailles treaty would bring not peace but “an armistice for 20 years”. Wednesday night’s last-gasp deal in the US Senate to end the government shutdown and avert collision with the debt ceiling has a similar flavour.
一戰結束之時,費迪南?福煦(Ferdinand Foch)說了那句著名的話,他預言《凡爾賽和約》(Versailles treaty)帶來的將不是和平,而僅是“20年的停戰”。周三晚美國參議院在最后一刻達成的、結束政府關門狀態和避免觸及債務上限的協議,讓人有似曾相識的感覺。
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