Like a corpse that sits bolt upright when electrocuted, US neoconservatives keep springing back to life. The electric charge comes at regular intervals – Syria’s use of chemical weapons, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, China’s growing maritime assertiveness, and now the return of Sunni extremism in Iraq. Their rehabilitation is abetted by the television networks: whenever there is a global setback, the same old faces run for the cameras and claim it is 1939. That is what they do. And the media loves them for it.
就像一遭電擊便立馬挺身坐起的死尸一樣,美國的新保守主義者不斷抽搐復活。電擊定期到來:敘利亞使用化學武器,俄羅斯吞并克里米亞,中國日益強硬的海洋領土主張,而這一次是遜尼派(Sunni)極端主義勢力重返伊拉克。電視網助長了他們元氣的恢復,只要出現全球性挫折事件,那幾張老臉就競相在鏡頭前聲稱時間回到了1939年。他們就是干這個的,而媒體也喜歡他們這么干。