2015考研英语阅读日本史选择性记忆_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读日本史选择性记忆

　　冲突和回忆这两种主题为约翰道尔这本新散文集赋予了生命。他另著有《拥抱战败》，该书研究了二战后的日本，获得了普利策奖。道尔对于日本粉饰其军国主义历史的行为特别感兴趣，但他也同样关注当权者通常是如何利用历史的。

　　Mr Dower discusses his surprise at hearing his own work cited after 9/11, when Americanofficials evoked the post-war occupation of Japan as a model for post-invasion Iraq.President George W. Bush should have seen that Japan provided no model for occupyingMesopotamia, Mr Dower wrote in a strikingly prescient 2002 New York Times op-ed,reproduced here. To rush to war without seriously imagining all its consequences, includingits aftermath, is not realism but a terrible hubris.

　　在9.11事件之后，美国官员援引了道尔的作品，要求以战后占领日本的模式在入侵伊拉克之后占领该国。道尔表示他听到这一消息以后有些错愕。他在2002 年《纽约时报》的社论专栏里极有先见之明地写道：乔治W布什总统应该认识到，日本不能为攻占美索不达米亚提供模式。不认真考虑战争的后果、包括可能带来的创伤就匆匆发动战争，这不是现实主义，而是一种可怕的傲慢狂妄。

　　He returns to the terrain of Embracing Defeat, marvelling at how the vicious racialhatreds of the Pacific war dissipated so quickly, as though turned off like a spigot. Thelesson for Mr Dower is not only that reluctant civilians must be mobilised by propaganda tofight and die, but also that new realities force new biases.