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- Like Eisenhower, this generation of men and women in uniform know all too well the wages of war and that includes those of you here at West Point
- 同艾森豪威尔一样 这一代身着军装的年轻人 也都非常清楚战争的代价 你们西点人肯定知道这一点
- Four of the servicemembers who stood in the audience when I announced the surge of our forces in Afghanistan gave their lives in that effort
- 在我宣布阿富汗增兵计划时 站在台下的听众中 有四名军人 为这一计划献出了生命
- A lot more were wounded I believe America's security demanded those deployments
- 受伤的人数就更多了 我相信 美国安全需要这些布署
- But I am haunted by those deaths
- 但我对这些逝去的生命无法释怀
- I am haunted by those wounds
- 我对这么多人的负伤无法释怀
- And I would betray my duty to you and to the country we love if I ever sent you into harm's way simply because I saw a problem somewhere in the world that needed to be fixed
- 我将背离自己的职责和对祖国的热爱 如果我将你们置于险境 仅仅因为我认为世界某地有问题需要解决
- or because I was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak
- 仅仅因为我害怕军事干涉主义者的批评 仅仅因为我害怕美国示弱 助长敌人的嚣张气焰
- Here's my bottom line: America must always lead on the world stage
- 总而言之 美国必须在世界舞台上扮演领导角色
- If we don't, no one else will
- 如果美国不站出来领导 谁都不会站出来
- The military that you have joined is and always will be the backbone of that leadership
- 你们加入的军队无论现在还是将来 都将一直是美国领导权的支柱
- But U.S. military action cannot be the only or even primary component of our leadership in every instance
- 不过军事行动 不能成为美国实现领导权的唯一手段 军事行动甚至连主要手段都不应当是
- Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail
- 不能因为我们手中拥有最好的铁锤 就把每个问题都当成钉子
- And because the costs associated with military action are so high
- 原因在于 军事行动的代价太过高昂
- you should expect every civilian leader and especially your Commander-in-Chief to be clear about how that awesome power should be used
- 每一位文职领导人 特别是三军统帅 应当清楚该如何使用强大的军事力量
- So let me spend the rest of my time describing my vision for how the United States of America and our military should lead in the years to come
- 下面请允许我将剩下的时间 用来描述我所理解的美利坚合众国应当如何在未来使用军事力量
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