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It took four presidencies for America to finish abandoning Afghanistan. [qh]
美国历经了四任总统才放弃阿富汗。[qh]
George W. Bush’s attention wandered off soon after American Special Forces rode horseback through the northern mountains and the first schoolgirls gathered in freezing classrooms. [qh]
美国特种部队骑马穿过北部山区，第一批女学生聚集在冰冷的教室里，此后，乔治·布什的注意力很快就分散了出去。 [qh]
Barack Obama, after studying the problem for months, poured in troops and pulled them out in a single ambivalent gesture whose goal was to keep the war on page A13.[qh]
巴拉克·奥巴马在研究了这个问题几个月后，在那里投入了大量军队，并以一种矛盾的姿态撤出了军队，他的目标是让战争继续留在A13页上。[qh]
Donald Trump cut a deal with the Taliban that left the future of the Afghan government, Afghan women, and al Qaeda to fate. [qh]
唐纳德·特朗普与塔利班达成了一项协议，将阿富汗政府、阿富汗妇女和基地组织的未来留给了命运。[qh]
By then most Americans were barely aware that the war was still going on. [qh]
那时，大多数美国人几乎没有意识到战争仍在进行。[qh]
It fell to Joe Biden to complete the task.[qh]
完成这项任务的重任落到了乔·拜登的肩上。 [qh]
Sam Ayres, a law student and former Army Ranger who had served three tours in Afghanistan as an enlisted infantryman, sent a letter to several people he knew in the administration, explaining why the issue mattered so personally to many veterans.[qh]
萨姆·艾尔斯是一名法律系学生，曾是陆军游骑兵，曾作为步兵在阿富汗服役过三次。他给政府中认识的几个人写了一封信，解释为什么这个问题对许多退伍军人个人如此重要。[qh]
He wrote that the faces and voices of individual interpreters stayed with American troops long after they returned home. [qh]
他写道，美国士兵回国后，口译员的面孔和声音一直伴随着他们。 [qh]
He described driving past Dover Air Force Base, where the caskets of two of his Army teammates had arrived in 2018 and 2019. [qh]
他描述了开车经过多佛空军基地的情景，他的两名陆军队友的棺材分别于2018年和2019年运抵那里。[qh]
“For the next couple hours of my drive, I was thrust back into the ongoing debate in my mind about whether our service—and the loss of teammates, American and Afghan—was all a waste,” Ayres wrote. [qh]
艾尔斯写道:“在接下来的几个小时里，我脑海中一直在争论我们的服役——以及失去的队友，美国人和阿富汗人——是否都是一种浪费。” [qh]
“Many of us veterans will spend the rest of our lives grappling with this question.[qh]
“我们中的许多退伍军人将在余生中努力解决这个问题。[qh]
At the very least, I hope we’ll be able to feel we did something honorable over there in our small corner of the war. That would provide some solace. [qh]
至少，我希望我们能够感觉到我们在战争的小角落里做了一些光荣的事情。这将提供一些安慰。[qh]
But coming to that conclusion will be even harder if the Afghans who went out on missions with us are left to die at the hands of our onetime enemies.”[qh]
但是，如果和我们一起执行任务的阿富汗人战死在我们曾经的敌人手中，我们就更难得出这个结论了。” [qh]
The letter received a pro forma response.[qh]
这封信得到了回复，只是形式上的回复。 [qh]
During the final withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden’s main—at times, it seemed, his only—focus was on keeping the number of American casualties as close to zero as possible.[qh]
在最后一次从阿富汗撤军的过程中，拜登的主要关注点——有时似乎是他唯一的关注点——是将美国的伤亡人数尽可能地保持在零。 [qh]
He didn’t reckon with the invisible harm of adding moral injury to military failure.[qh]
他没有考虑到在军事失败的基础上又加了精神创伤的无形危害。 [qh]
Within the administration, a few indicators were starting to flash red.[qh]
在政府内部，一些指标开始亮起红灯。 [qh]
By July the CIA, which had given the Afghan government a year back in April, now judged that it might fall in a matter of weeks. [qh]
今年4月，美国中央情报局给了阿富汗政府一年的时间，但到了7月，中央情报局判断阿富汗政府可能会在几周内垮台。[qh]
As it moved out of its bases around the country, the CIA decided to keep open a base called Eagle, near the Kabul airport, [qh]
随着美国中情局撤出其在阿富汗全国各地的基地，中情局决定继续开放喀布尔机场附近一个名为鹰的基地，[qh]
as a transit point in the event that the agency’s counterparts in the Afghan National Directorate of Security, along with their families, had to be evacuated quickly.[qh]
在阿富汗国家安全局的相关人员及其家属不得不迅速撤离的情况下，将该基地作为中转站。[qh]
