冷战后美国统治集团在战争与和平问题上主要观点评析

The Major Views of the American Ruling Group on War and Peace After the Cold War: A Critical Review

第二次世界大战后,美国为创建自己主导下的全球秩序,运用战争与和平两种手段推行对外政策,以保证美国及其盟友在全球范围的政治和经济利益。美国政要们认为,战争是一种工具,是借以获得权力和势力、增进国家利益的一种手段,没有美国,和平和自由就没有可能继续保持下去。为保护美国的切身利益,必须把采取和平的办法和坚决的行动结合起来,利用一切和平手段来诱导共产党集团,20世纪在苏联和东欧击败共产主义,仅是21世纪“自由”在全世界获胜的第一步。对于美国而言,21世纪最重大的挑战之一,是处理信奉针锋相对的意识形态的各国人民之间依然并将永远存在的深刻分歧。

After the WWII,the United States,in pursuit of a global order under its own leadership,implemented its foreign policies through war and peace in order to secure the political and economic interests of the U.S.and its allies around the world.American dignitaries acknowledged war as a tool to gain power and influence and to advance national interests.Peace and freedom cannot be sustained without American involvement.It is necessary for America’s vital interests to combine peaceful approaches with determined action.Adopting all peaceful means to entrap the Communist bloc and defeating Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 20th century was merely the first step towards the triumph of“freedom”all over the world in the 21st century.One of the greatest challenges of the 21 st century lies in dealing with the deep divisions that still exist and will always exist between peoples with opposing ideologies.