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Youtube:奥巴马回忆伊拉克战争错误
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President Obama Recalls Mistakes of Iraq War
奥巴马回忆伊拉克战争错误
Jake: Mr. President, in your speech at American University yesterday,you called this the most important foreign policy debate that we’ve witnessed since the Iraq War.
总统先生，昨天在美国大学的演讲中，你称这是自伊拉克战争以来我们见证的最重要的外交政策辩论。
Obama: Right.
对。
Jake: I think if you talk to most Americans, and particularly our generation, they don’t necessarily feel that. I wonder why you think that is?
我认为，如果你跟大部分美国人谈一下，尤其是我们这一代人，他们不会这样认为。为什么你会有这样的看法？
Obama: Well, I lived through the debate of the Iraq War. I wasn’t yet in the United States Senate. I was a state senator in Illinois.
我经历了伊拉克战争的辩论。那时我还不在美国参议院。当时我只是伊利诺伊州一名参议员。
Archive clip: I don’t oppose war in all circumstances. What I do oppose is a dumb war.
我不反对任何情况下发动战争。但是我反对盲目愚蠢的战争。
Obama: At the time, there was a drumbeat that going into Iraq was the right thing to do.
那时，人们觉得进军伊拉克是正确的事情。
George H W Bush: We will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American people.
我们会回应威胁美国民众的任何危险和敌人。
Obama: A lot of people didn’t get engaged in that debate then either.
那时许多人没有参与辩论。
It was only after the decision was made.
只是做出决策之后才参与讨论。
It was only after the initial push into Baghdad descended into massive chaos that suddenly the country realized that we had made a big, strategic mistake.
只是最初进军巴格达引发大范围的混乱之后，整个国家才突然意识到我们犯了一个大的战略错误。
And my point is that now is the time to have the debate, not after decisions are made.
我的观点是，现在是进行辩论的正确实际，而不是做出决策之后才进行辩论。
CCTV9:台风迫使华东地区18万人疏散
Typhoon Soudelor forces 181,000 to evacuate in E. China
台风迫使华东地区18万人疏散
The 13th typhoon this year has left four people dead and forced 181,000 to evacuate in east China's Anhui province since it entered the province Sunday morning.
Local authorities said Monday that more than 550,000 people and 20,000 hectares of crops in 10 cities were affected by the typhoon. Some 560 houses collapsed and another 1,200 were damaged, with direct economic losses totaling US$91.5 million.
The typhoon had left 14 people dead and another four missing in neighboring Zhejiang province as of Sunday afternoon, and has left three people dead, and another person missing in Fujian province, with more than 1.3 million people affected.
China's weather authority has lifted a typhoon warning after typhoon Soudelor was downgraded to a tropical storm. The storm is now moving north at a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour from the border area of Jiangxi, Hubei and and Anhui provinces.
Weather authorities say it will further weaken to an extra-tropical cyclone. But the storm will continue bringing downpours and powerful winds to eastern China.
CCTV9视频:中国向巴基斯坦提供现金援助
China offers cash aid to Pakistan
中国向巴基斯坦提供现金援助
China has provided cash aid to Pakistan, which is battered by severe flooding that have claimed nearly 180 lives, and affected 1.2 million people in a month.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed condolences over phone to Sartaj Aziz, advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, on Monday. He said China is willing to offer more help. Meanwhile, Chinese Embassy in Pakistan has given cash as relief fund, on behalf of China Red Cross.
Forecasts say Pakistan will see strong rainfall over the next two weeks, and is need of relief supplies.
"Food, shelter....tents and other basic needs. We now also focusing not only immediate aid, but also building back. Whatever is being built....all these communities,” Rizwan Naseer, secretary of Pakistan Red Crescent Society, said.
