我们败选了。不过老布什也没有赢,因为同样主张“美国第一(America first)的罗斯·佩罗(Ross Perot)抢走了理查德·尼克松(Richard Nixon)与罗纳德·里根(Ronald Reagan)联盟三分之一的选票。最终,老布什成为继威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱(William Howard Taft)之后得票率最低的在任总统。
Mr Bush’s foreign policy record could not save him. The US was looking inward in 1992, as it does today. As Mitt Romney burnishes his foreign policy credentials this week, he should keep this lesson in mind.
老布什在外交政策方面取得的成绩无法拯救他。1992年的美国和今天一样,正在把目光转向国内。米特·罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)在外交政策方面证明自己的同时,应记住这个教训。
Having learnt from his father’s defeat, George W. Bush offered a “more humble policy. But after September 11, he had a Damascene conversion, went nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq, and declared the US’s goal was “to end tyranny in our world. Americans responded by relieving the Republican party of both houses of Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2010.
小布什(George W. Bush)从父亲的失败中吸取了教训,提出的政策“更低调。但9/11事件后,小布什的政策出现了一次质的转变:他跑到阿富汗和伊拉克搞国家重建(nation-building),并宣布美国的目标是“终结全世界的暴政。美国人对此的反应是,让共和党在2006年丢掉参众两院控制权,在2010年总统选举中败给民主党。
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