I thought of Michael Corleone when I listened to Donald Trump pledging to act to stop Syria’s “beautiful babies” from being gassed. “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,” he must have been thinking last week, much like the quote from The Godfather Part III. Sure enough, even as pundits enumerated the many times Trump had previously railed against intervening in Syria, and reminded him of his “America first” doctrine, US missiles were raining on a Syrian air base.
当我听到唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)承诺采取行动阻止叙利亚“漂亮的孩子们”被毒气毒死时,我想到了迈克尔•科莱奥内(Michael Corleone)。“我刚刚金盆洗手,他们就逼我重出江湖,”他上周一定这么想过,就像《教父3》(The Godfather Part III)中的这句台词一样。可以肯定的是,就在专家们列举特朗普此前多次谴责干预叙利亚局势的例子、并提醒他“美国优先”(America First)原则时,美国导弹正如雨点般落在叙利亚的一个空军基地。