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The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting
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2013-11-10
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问题
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting the civilian public health infrastructure (建筑基础), the US military imposes a continuing economic blockade on Iraq which has directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children. The US government is the primary financier and arms supplier for the decade-long Israeli war against the entire Palestinian people. The US armed forces and US-organized and/or US-financed ally or proxy forces have killed millions upon millions of civilians since the end of World War II. This is the not-so-hidden meaning of the Stars and Stripes, as the vast majority of people around the world understand it.
Now the US government has begun what it bills as an open-ended "War on Terrorism" which conveniently ignores the fact that in the late Twentieth Century and the beginning of the Twenty-first Century it is the United States of America that, by its own definition, is the most prolific terrorist force in the world. At the same time US leaders are choosing to target whichever individuals, organizations, regimes and/or nation-states? among the wide array of opponents of US policies — are deemed most convenient this week, leaving the rest for next week, next year or the next decade. This is, of course, a recipe for a perpetual war, which is as well understood by President Bush and the other architects of the "New World Order" as it was by the architects of a similar project of world empire that was proudly proclaimed the Third Reich (希特勒的第三帝国), under a flag with a similarly not-so-hidden meaning.
Perpetual war serves a number of purposes for the present administration. It is under wartime conditions that the U.S. will, at least initially, face the least resistance as it finishes the now over two century-long processes of gutting the Bill of Rights and voiding the inconvenient parts of the US Constitution. It is under conditions of war that the campaign to defeat the anti-globalization movement can be fought with increasingly militant and dirty tactics. It is under wartime conditions that all opponents of US policies anywhere in the world, including within the U.S. itself, can be most easily labeled "terrorist" at the same time that the mass media can be most easily mobilized as a total propaganda machine. And it is under conditions of war that the arms production, oil production and military technology corporations that funded President Bush’s election by the Supreme Court will be most handsomely rewarded without too many questions ever being asked. And best of all, wartime conditions lend themselves to the easy mobilization of xenophobic (仇视外国人的), politically reactionary, flag-waving patriotism.
According to the author, the not-so-hidden meaning of the Stars and Stripes is______.
选项
A、the US intention to be the most prolific terrorist force in the world
B、an architecture project of a world empire similar to that of the Third Reich
C、the US campaign to defeat the anti-globalization movement
D、a perpetual war for the "New World Order"
答案
D
解析
推断题。作者在第一段历数美国的暴行后,用一句话作为结尾:This is the not-so-hidden…around theworld understand it.这里“the Stars and Stripes”用于双重含义,一是指代美国政府,二是象征美国打出的旗号。在第二段里作者进入更深一层的分析,指出美国的所谓无限期“反恐战争”旨在打击那些与其背道而驰的国家。将两段的内容结合起来分析,就可以看出美国星条旗下的野心是发动永久性战争以建立美国的“世界新秩序”。由此可见。D为正确选项。A项不可取。因为美国打出的旗号不会自诩为恐怖势力。B项与题意不符,将美国的野心比作当年纳粹德国建立第三帝国的野心是作者对美国政府的讥刺,不是美国的打算,故不可取。C项所指是美国发动永久性战争要达到的目的之一,不足以概括美国的全部野心。
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