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The Limits of Number One
We do not, as Madeline Albright did, think the price is worth it.

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自冷战结束以来，美国一直是世界上最危险的国家。 尽管在去年入侵乌克兰之后，俄罗斯现在是这一头衔的有力竞争者，但与莫斯科相比，美国现在袭击了更多国家，制造了更多混乱，造成了更多平民伤亡。 对于中国，人们必须追溯到半个世纪前的无产阶级文化大革命，才能发现其政府对人类造成了类似的伤害，而且是对自己的人民造成的伤害。

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has been by far the world’s most dangerous nation. Although Russia is now a contender for that title after last year’s invasion of Ukraine, America has attacked more countries, created more chaos, and caused more civilian casualties than has Moscow even now. For China, one would have to go back a half century to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to find its government causing comparable human harm, and that was to its own population.

令人震惊的是，前副国家安全顾问本·罗兹 (Ben Rhodes) 称之为外交政策机构的 blob 成员一直如此无能，却几乎没有遭受专业后果。 这种缺乏问责制是可耻的。 然而，华盛顿的精英们毫不犹豫地冷酷地为有时会发生巨大的外国伤亡事件合理化。

例如，奥尔布赖特傲慢地坚持认为美国比其他国家更长远地展望未来，为美国一贯的侵略性和军国主义政策辩护。 考虑到过去几十年美国干预造成的多重灾难，她的观点在华盛顿得到广泛认同，尽管这显然是胡说八道。 除了旋转门华盛顿官僚之外，还有谁会判断美国有远见和成功的努力？

It is shocking that members of the blob, which former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes called the foreign policy establishment, have been so consistently incompetent while suffering few professional consequences. This lack of accountability is scandalous. However, Washington elites have never hesitated to callously rationalize sometimes prodigious foreign casualties.

For instance, Albright arrogantly insisted that the U.S. look further into the future than other nations, justifying America’s consistently aggressive and militaristic policies. Her opinion is widely shared in Washington despite being obvious nonsense, given the multiple catastrophes caused by U.S. interventions over the last couple decades. Who other than a revolving door Washington apparatchik would judge America’s efforts to be farsighted and successful?

尽管如此，如前所述，奥尔布赖特打趣道：“我们认为这个代价是值得的”，对数十万儿童的死亡置之不理。 毫无疑问，伊拉克的乔治·W·布什、阿富汗的巴拉克·奥巴马和也门的唐纳德·特朗普也有类似的想法。 然而想象一下，如果外国官员——例如弗拉基米尔·普京或习近平——提出类似的主张，美国人会作何反应。 如果俄罗斯总统解释说，乌克兰冲突中的平民伤亡是不幸的，但却是必要的。 毕竟，他的国家表现出独特的远见，其行动的代价是“值得的”。

Nevertheless, as noted earlier, Albright dismissed the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children with the quip: “We think the price is worth it.” No doubt George W. Bush in Iraq, Barack Obama in Afghanistan, and Donald Trump in Yemen thought similarly. Yet imagine how Americans would respond if a foreign official—Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, for example—made a similar claim. What if the Russian president explained that the civilian toll in the Ukraine conflict was unfortunate, but necessary. After all, his nation exhibited unique foresight and the price of its actions was “worth it.”

如果有人付钱，无论成本多高，都可以很容易地证明其合理性。 今天的美国外交政策不仅愚蠢而且适得其反。 这也是非常不道德的。 华盛顿已经将人们变成了达到山姆大叔目的的手段，让他们付出通常是最终代价的代价。

下一届政府应该重新学习谦逊、同情、克制、同理心、实用主义和现实主义等外交政策美德。 世界不是一个全球性的国际象棋游戏，美国的政策制定者有权肆虐，同时牺牲美国军事人员和外国平民作为许多棋子。

It is easy to justify any cost, no matter how high, if someone else is paying. U.S. foreign policy today is not just foolish and counterproductive. It also is deeply immoral. Washington has turned people into a means for Uncle Sam’s ends, leaving them to pay what often has been the ultimate price.

The next administration should relearn such foreign policy virtues as humility, compassion, restraint, empathy, pragmatism, and realism. The world is not a global chess game in which American policymakers are entitled to wreak havoc while sacrificing U.S. military personnel and foreign civilians alike as so many gambit pawns.

奥尔布赖特是捷克出生的犹太人，二战期间全家遭受纳粹迫害，是南斯拉夫人救了他们，她成年以后成为美国国务卿，亲自下令北约轰炸南联盟

mydada 写了： 2023年 1月 26日 12:43 奥尔布赖特是捷克出生的犹太人，二战期间全家遭受纳粹迫害，是南斯拉夫人救了他们，她成年以后成为美国国务卿，亲自下令北约轰炸南联盟

Firstly, I'm with Gerald Celente - no wars EVER and peace to rule the planet.

But that ain't gonna happen entirely because of us -the failing, most elite Empire.

Virtually and without relevant competition, the eminent state motivated, enriched state terrorist entities are us, the United States of America and Israel with a lame third place effort by the UK. These are the “state sponsored terrorist nations”.

However, the current, careful to avoid civilian casualties actions of Russia (absolutely forced into a corner they neither desired, deserved nor wanted) during their special operation assault of the USA appointed, dictated Nazis in Ukraine caused 100% by us and our pathetic NATO/Israeli alliance of murderers needs explanation which is easy to locate and shows them forced into this tragedy.

“Bucha style mass killings” pfft… you Russians needa’ learn from us, the failing but still most virulent, efficient, effective, terrorist empire EVER upon how to really massacre people – we started with the Indians in the 1800s and haven’t let up yet to this day. All treaties broken – our record perfect.

The situation in Ukraine is 100% caused by us, the glorious United States of America, period. With a little help from our sycophants’ viz. NATO participants such as Canada, the EU morons, the pathetic UK et.al.

We re-established a Nazi regime in Ukraine booting out the elected leader from late 2013 through February 2014 with Vicki the cookie monster and rallied, supported, armed, incentivized (ho-hum like our brothers in the small eastern Mediterranean terrorist “country”) them since then.

Thankfully, apparently no one remembers that we, the United States of America, have since World War II:

Conservatively, according to confidential Pentagon estimates, killed, murdered, assassinated, bombed to death, poisoned, maimed, raped, wounded, tortured, given disease to, burned, starved, attempted mind-control techniques and made homeless over 34,546,600 persons;
Outright invaded numerous countries;
Overthrown, murdered or assassinated elected leaders of many democratic countries;
Bribed, coerced, threatened with same, numerous foreign countries’ leaders/ dictators to entrap their citizens into slavery;
Financed, organized and facilitated military and other coups of foreign countries;
Conducted outright terrorist attacks to this day on foreign countries;
Engaged in the theft of natural resources from numerous countries, gold, oil, etc. via financial means through the Federal Reserve, USA paid “economic hitmen”, central banks, IMF, BIS, World Bank, assassination, murder and straight up military force;
Incited color revolutions around the world;
Invented, organized, financed, trained, outfitted and provided medical facilities for - Al Qaeda and ISIS, etc. with much assistance from our Ashkenazi friends in the eastern Mediterranean; and
Last but not least, inflicted tragedy upon our own country and its population via false flag events (like buildings that got blown up (OK) and far more blatantly…such as - the only three massively steel framed buildings in history that ever fell - happened on one day and one of them not damaged at all??)
Assassination of our political leaders and gross stripping the Constitutional Rights of Americans through lies and illegal Acts of Congress.
These acts have been carried out variously against:

Korea
Vietnam (never mind civilian casualties – over 1,769,040 accredited women and children poisoned, murdered, bombed, raped, tortured and given disease to according to Pentagon statistical estimates)
Syria – statistics not available to date
Iran
Iraq (not counting total civilian casualties – over 650,000 women and children murdered, poisoned, raped, bombed, tortured and given disease to by us). Madeline Ashkenazi Not-too-Bright a senior Bush SS leader remarked “Yeah – it’s a big number but well worth it”
Somalia
Yemen
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Lebanon
China via Hong Kong
China via Taiwan
Haiti
Libya
Egypt
Germany (000s of prisoners starved after the war was over)
Venezuela
Cuba
Grenada
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Panama
Armenia
Macedonia
Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait
Belarus
Myanmar
Moldova
Malaysia
And others
But NOT to our spiritual and dual citizens leaders in beloved Israel.

Doug Bandow 是卡托研究所的高级研究员。 他曾是罗纳德·里根总统的特别助理，着有《外国的愚蠢行为：美国的全球新帝国》。