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All countries have obvious incentives to learn from past mistakes, but those that have successfully risen to the status of great
All countries have obvious incentives to learn from past mistakes, but those that have successfully risen to the status of great
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2019-06-10
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All countries have obvious incentives to learn from past mistakes, but those that have successfully risen to the status of great powers may be less inclined to adapt quickly in the future. When it comes to learning the right lessons, paradoxically, nothing fails like prior success.
This wouldn’t seem to make sense. After all, strong and wealthy states can afford to devote a lot of resources to analyzing important foreign-policy problems. But then again, when states are really powerful, the negative consequences of foolish behavior rarely prove fatal. Just as America’s " Big Three" automakers were so large and dominant they could resist reform and innovation despite ample signs that foreign competition was rapidly overtaking them, strong and wealthy states can keep misguided policies in place and still manage to limp along for many years.
The history of the Soviet Union offers an apt example of this phenomenon. Soviet-style communism was woefully inefficient and brutally inhumane, and its Marxist-Leninist ideology both alarmed the capitalist world and created bitter splits within the international communist movement. Yet the Soviet Union survived for almost 70 years and was one of the world’s two superpowers for more than four decades. The United States has also suffered serious self-inflicted wounds on the foreign-policy front in recent decades, but the consequences have not been so severe as to compel a broader reassessment of the ideas and strategies that have underpinned many of these mistakes.
The tendency to cling to questionable ideas or failed practices will be particularly strong when a set of policy initiatives is bound up in a great power’s ruling ideology or political culture. Soviet leaders could never quite abandon the idea of world revolution, and defenders of British and French colonialism continued to see it as the " white man’s burden. " Today, U. S. leaders remain stubbornly committed to the goals of nation-building and democracy promotion despite their discouraging track record with these endeavors.
Yet because the universal ideals of liberty and democracy are core American principles, it is hard for U. S. leaders to acknowledge that other societies cannot be readily remade in America’s image. Even when U. S. leaders recognize that they cannot create " some sort of Central Asian Valhalla," as Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged in 2009, they continue to spend billions of dollars trying to build democracy in Afghanistan, a largely traditional society that has never had a strong central state, let alone a democratic one.
The passage suggests that the Soviet Union______.
选项
A、had long been in crisis before it fell
B、used to be number one in the world
C、lasted for a long time because of its brutality
D、caused separatism in western countries
答案
A
解析
本题是主旨大意题,考查第三段的前半段的主要内容,关键点:...woefully inefficient and brutally inhumane…。
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