Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, the world looks on as another tyrant kills his own people. History’s first take has it that the toppling of Saddam Hussein was a disaster born of American hubris. Much contemporary opinion believes that leaving Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria marks a failure of western conscience. Those who condemned the use of American military might now seem to lament its absence.
入侵伊拉克10年以后，全世界坐視另一位暴君屠殺其國民。歷史最初的觀點是，推翻薩達姆?侯賽因(Saddam Hussein)是美國人傲慢自大所導致的災難。更近的觀點則認為，讓巴沙爾?阿薩德(Bashar al-Assad)繼續統治敘利亞標志著西方良知的失靈。以前譴責美國揮舞軍力的人，現在可能哀嘆美國不肯動兵。
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