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教授分析了美国低迷时代产生的主要原因，期间的主要事件，美国总统的表现，以及苏联的所作所为，他还探讨了美国要不要推行美式和平和恐怖主义问题。
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n. 命令，指令，要求，托管地 vt. 把(某一地区)置
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- Segment 29e: Conclusions. Why we fight.
- 29段第五部分：结论。我们作战的原因。
- America's wars have been variably meant with some opposition on the home front.
- 美国参战是确实总会在国内遇到反对的声音。
- Conversely, American presidents have given some controversial reasons for going to war.
- 相反的是，美国总统给出的参战原因经常会有争议。
- We've already seen how Lyndon B. Johnson manipulated the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident to justify escalating the Vietnam War.
- 我们已经知道林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊如何操纵了1964年的东京湾事件来为自己扩大越战寻找理由。
- George H.W. Bush successfully received a mandate from the Senate to pursue the Gulf War in 1991, but it was pretty close.
- 乔治·赫伯特·沃克·布什1990年成功地从参议院获得了进行海湾战争的决议，不过其实投票数很接近。
- Even after the Gulf War's successful conclusion, Bush was accused of fighting for oil,
- 即使是海湾战争胜利后，还有人指责他是为了石油而战，
- as his son George W. Bush would be accused of doing more than a decade later.
- 就像小布什10多年后被指责的一样。
- Bill Clinton's interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo were both done, not in the name of the United States,
- 比尔·克林顿现在波斯尼亚和科索沃的干涉都不是以美国，
- but in the name of NATO, even though no NATO member was being threatened.
- 而是以北约的名义进行的，尽管没有一位北约成员受到了威胁。
- It's just that the UN was not giving President Clinton the green light he wanted, so the next best thing was a green light from NATO.
- 只是因为联合国没有给克林顿想要的绿灯，他就退而求其次拿到北约的绿灯。
- To this day, George W. Bush is still coming up with various ways of justifying his invasion of Iraq.
- 直到现在，小布什还在用各种方式来解释自己入侵伊拉克的行动。
- Unfortunately, his double talk on this topic is an American presidential tradition, participated in by presidents of both parties.
- 不幸的是，他的这种含糊其辞正是美国总统的一贯作风，两党的总统都会这样做。
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