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2015考研英语阅读外交往事

　　而在那之前，乔治凯南不过是美国外交界里颇有前途的小青年，之后则位列顶级战略家之层。他的论据证实了杜鲁门政府继续与苏联战时合作的努力终究无果。美国应当把苏联做为一个新的，一个试图摧毁我们传统的生活方式的敌人来认识，应当放弃传统的战争方式，坚决地包纳苏联的敌意并长期持之以恒。随着美苏争霸的愈演愈烈，乔治凯南意识到，对美国来讲最关键的是保持我们这个社会的健康与活力而不是变成一个堡垒式的国家。

　　After the Long Telegram, Kennan returned to Washington and founded the StateDepartment s influential Policy Planning Staff. But, according to Mr Gaddis, his prestige hadpeaked by 1948. After that, Kennan became increasingly sidelined for opposing what hejudged to be excessive militarisation of his containment strategy. Yet he continued tocondemn overly militarised policies for the rest of his life.

　　长电之后，乔治凯南返回华盛顿，组建了国务院颇具影响力的机构政策计划处。不过根据约翰加迪斯的讲述，其名望在1948年达到了顶峰。之后由于抵制其认为的过度军事化遏制政策而逐步边缘化。而乔治凯南终其余生都在谴责过度军事化的政策。

　　Kennan took particular offence at the attitude of the Reagan administration, which heviewed as simply childish, inexcusably childish, unworthy of people charged with theresponsibility for conducting the affairs of a great power in an endangered world. Nor did theend of the cold war change his mind. In 1992 Kennan made a point of stating that nobodywon the cold war. It had been a long, costly tragedy, fuelled on both sides by unreal andexaggerated estimates of the intentions and strength of the other side.