将近20年后，如果您问一位美国将军或总统（其中任何一个人）在阿富汗的目标是什么，他们会给您吃一个沙拉，这么大的沙拉足以让您保持几个月的正常状态。
自从2001年对阿富汗进行占领以来，战斗一直没有停止，在这一过程中摧毁了该国，并导致美国在这场战争中的支出估计为2万亿美元。
American polling firm Gallup has found that Afghans are the saddest people on earth, finding that nearly nine in ten respondents are “suffering,” in their own words, with zero percent claiming that they are currently “thriving.” When asked to
阿富汗的倒闭只是美国政策存在根本缺陷而造成全球后果的一个例子。与美国所摧毁的国家相比，美国在各个国家之间实行“政权更迭”所建立的新的准政府已证明更加腐败，合法性更弱，无法控制自己的领土。
The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years.
U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, the top American official in the negotiations, has been quietly overseeing the destruction of Afghanistan for most of his political career — longer than the Taliban has existed as an organization.
National Security Advisor John Bolton’s firing may be the 9/11 anniversary gift the war-weary American public wanted, but the support he received from the establishment demonstrates that the war machine is much greater than one man. Bolton, the neoconservative movement’s standard bearer in the Trump administration, took up a crusade against
特朗普政府越来越多地依靠轰炸任务来试图扭转阿富汗的局面，近年来塔利班在其控制下获得了越来越多的土地。
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- For the first time in recorded history, the U.S. and the Afghan government, whose forces are trained by Americans, killed more civilians than did the Taliban in the first quarter of 2019, according to a United Nations
他没有兑现承诺从阿富汗和叙利亚撤军，否决了一项离开也门的命令，并扩大了美国对索马里的轰炸，同时瞄准了伊朗。
Here’s a statement it might be hard to disagree with: American war is off the charts. Still, I’d like to explain — but I’m nervous about doing so. I know perfectly well that the next word I plan to write will send most of you tumbling elsewhere in a universe in which “news” is the latest grotesque mass shooting; the craziest tweet from
如果国际刑事法院开始并被允许调查西方犯下的危害人类罪，那么美国和欧洲作为自由和民主先驱的整个扭曲概念可能会轻易而迅速地崩溃。
Well, not exactly like that, but in a way, yes. Now, finally, ‘the gloves are off’. The U.S. is openly threatening the historically timid ICC (International Criminal Court) and its judges. And unexpectedly, the ICC is hitting back. It refuses to shut up, to kneel, and to beg for mercy. Suddenly, even the Western mass media outlets cannot conceal
