重磅！拜登就阿富汗局势发表讲话（中英文对照）

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重磅！拜登就阿富汗局势发表讲话（中英文对照）

[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)]Joe Biden      牛刀小视    昨天

Good afternoon. I want to speak today to the unfolding situation in Afghanistan: the developments that have taken place in the last week and the steps we’re taking to address the rapidly evolving events.

下午好。我今天想谈谈阿富汗不断发展的局势，上周发生的事态，以及我们为应对迅速演变的事件所采取的措施。




My national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency, including the rapid collapse we’re seeing now.




我的国家安全团队和我一直在密切关注阿富汗当地的局势，并迅速采取行动，执行我们为应对各种突发事件而制定的计划，包括我们现在看到的快速崩溃。




I’ll speak more in a moment about the specific steps we’re taking, but I want to remind everyone how we got here and what America’s interests are in Afghanistan.


我稍后会更多地谈及我们正在采取的具体步骤。但我想提醒大家，我们是如何走到这一步的，美国在阿富汗的利益是什么。




We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack usagain. We did that.  We severely degraded al Qaeda in Afghanistan. We never gave up the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and we got him.  That was a decade ago.


近20年前，我们带着明确的目标进入阿富汗：抓住那些在2001年9月11日袭击我们的人，并确保基地组织不能利用阿富汗作为基地再次袭击我们。我们做到了这一点。我们严重削弱了基地组织和阿富汗的实力。我们从未放弃对奥萨马·本·拉登的追捕，我们抓住了他。那是十年前的事了。


Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy. Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland.


我们在阿富汗的任务本来就不应该是国家建设。它从来不应该是创造一个统一的、集中的民主国家。我们在阿富汗的唯一重要的国家利益今天仍然是一如既往的：防止对美国本土的恐怖袭击。


（编者按：降低预期。我没失败，是你预期太高）




I’ve argued for many years that our mission should be narrowly focused on counterterrorism — not counterinsurgency or nationbuilding.  That’s why I opposed the surge when it was proposed in 2009 when I was Vice President. And that’s why, as President, I am adamant that we focus on the threats we face today in 2021 —not yesterday’s threats.


我多年来一直主张，我们的任务应该严格集中在反恐上，而不是反叛乱或国家建设。这就是为什么我在2009年担任副总统时反对增兵的提议。这就是为什么作为总统，我坚决要求我们把重点放在2021年我们今天面临的威胁上，而不是昨日的威胁。

（编者按：我知道我在干啥，深思熟虑后的决策；政策选择方面可以有分歧，但那和工作能力无关）

Today, the terrorist threat has metastasized well beyond Afghanistan: al Shabaab in Somalia, al Qaeda in theArabian Peninsula, al-Nusra in Syria, ISIS attempting to create a caliphate inSyria and Iraq and establishing affiliates in multiple countries in Africa andAsia.  These threats warrant ourattention and our resources.


今天，恐怖主义威胁已经远远超出了阿富汗。索马里的青年党、阿拉伯半岛的基地组织、叙利亚的支持阵线、试图在叙利亚和伊拉克建立哈里发并在非洲和亚洲多个国家建立附属机构的伊斯兰国。这些威胁值得我们关注并提供资源。




We conduct effective counterterrorism missions against terrorist groups in multiple countries where we don’t have apermanent military presence. If necessary, we will do the same in Afghanistan.  We’ve developed counterterrorism over-the-horizon capability that will allow us to keep our eyes firmly fixed on any direct threats to the United States in the region and to act quickly and decisively if needed.


在我们没有长期军事存在的多个国家，我们对恐怖组织进行有效的反恐任务。如果有必要，我们在阿富汗也会这样做。我们已经发展了反恐超视距能力，这将使我们能够牢牢盯住该地区对美国的直接威胁，并在必要时迅速果断地采取行动。


When I came into office, I inherited a dealthat President Trump negotiated with the Taliban.  Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021 — just a little over three months after I took office. U.S. forces had already drawn down during the Trump administration from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in country, and the Taliban was at its strongest militarily since 2001.






当我上任时，我继承了特朗普总统与塔利班谈判达成的一项协议。根据他的协议，美军将在2021年5月1日之前撤出阿富汗，也就是我上任后三个月多一点。在特朗普执政期间，美国军队已经从大约15500名美军缩减到2500名驻阿部队。而塔利班正处于自2001年以来最强大的军事状态。



The choice I had to make, as your President, was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season. There would have been no ceasefire after May 1. There was no agreement protecting our forces after May 1. There was no status quo of stability without American casualties after May 1. There was only the cold reality of either following through on the agreement to withdraw our forces or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat in Afghanistan, lurching into the third decade of conflict.




作为你们的总统，我必须做出的选择是，要么贯彻执行该协议，要么准备在春季战斗季节中重新与塔利班作战。5月1日之后就不会有停火了。5月1日之后没有保护我们部队的协议。5月1日之后，没有美国人伤亡的稳定现状没有保证了。只有一个冷酷的现实：要么落实撤军协议，要么冲突升级，让数以千计的美国军队重新投入阿富汗的战斗，并蹒跚进入冲突的第三个十年。
（编者按：甩锅前任）


I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces. That’s why we were still there.  We were clear-eyed about the risks.  We planned for every contingency.


我坚定地支持我的决定。经过20年的时间，我深刻地认识到，从来没有一个撤出美国军队的好时机。这就是为什么我们仍然在那里。我们清楚地知道风险的存在。我们为每一个突发事件做了计划。
（编者按：确实干砸了，但没有一个更好的时点，降低预期）


But I always promised the American people that I will be straight with you. The truth is: This did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what’s happened?  Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.




但我总是向美国人民承诺，我将对你们坦白。事实是，这确实比我们预期的要快。那么发生了什么？阿富汗政治领导人放弃了，逃离了这个国家。阿富汗军队崩溃了，有时没有尝试战斗。如果有的话，过去一周的发展加强了现在结束美国在阿富汗的军事参与是正确的决定。 （编者按：甩锅阿富汗当局）




American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.  We spent over a trillion dollars.  We trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong — incredibly well equipped — a force larger in size than the militaries of many of our NATO allies.




美国军队不能也不应该在阿富汗部队不愿意为自己打的战争中作战和牺牲。我们花费了超过1万亿美元。我们训练和装备了一支约30万兵力的阿富汗军队。拥有令人难以置信的装备。这支部队的规模比我们许多北约盟国的军队都要大。






We gave them every tool they could need.  We paid their salaries, provided for the maintenance of their air force — something the Taliban doesn’t have.  Taliban does not have an airforce.  We provided close air support. We gave them every chance to determine their own future.  What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future.




我们给他们提供了他们可能需要的所有工具。我们支付他们的工资，为他们的空军提供维护，这是塔利班所没有的。塔利班没有空军。我们提供了近距离空中支援。我们给了他们一切机会来决定他们自己的未来。我们不能提供给他们的是为这个未来而战的意愿。
（编者按：我们尽力了，烂泥扶不上墙）




There’s some very brave and capable Afghanspecial forces units and soldiers, but if Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance to the Taliban now, there is no chance that 1 year — 1 more year, 5 more years, or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.




存在一些非常勇敢和有能力的阿富汗特种部队单位和士兵。但是，如果阿富汗现在无法对塔利班进行任何真正的抵抗，那么即使美国再驻军一年、再一年、五年或二十年，也不可能起到任何作用。




And here’s what I believe to my core: It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan’s own armed forces would not.  If the political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country when the chips were down, they would never have done so while U.S. troops remained in Afghanistan bearing the brunt of the fighting for them.


以下是我的核心观点：在阿富汗自己的武装部队不愿意的情况下，命令美国军队出手是错误的。阿富汗的政治领导人无法为了他们人民的利益走到一起，无法在关键时刻为他们国家的未来进行谈判。当美国军队留在阿富汗为他们承担战斗的重任时，他们永远不会这样做。




And our true strategic competitors — Chinaand Russia — would love nothing more than the United States to continue to funnel billions of dollars in resources and attention into stabilizing Afghanistan indefinitely.




而我们真正的战略竞争者，中国和俄罗斯，最希望的就是美国继续将数十亿美元的资源和注意力无限期地投入到稳定阿富汗的工作中。 （编者按：敌人赞成的，我们反对；敌人看我们笑话，所以我们赶紧撤。）
When I hosted President Ghani and ChairmanAbdullah at the White House in June and again when I spoke by phone to Ghani inJuly, we had very frank conversations. We talked about how Afghanistan should prepare to fight their civil wars after the U.S. military departed, to clean up the corruption in government so the government could function for the Afghan people.  We talked extensively about the need for Afghan leaders to unite politically. They failed to do any of that. I also urged them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with the Taliban.  This advice was flatly refused.  Mr. Ghani insisted the Afghan forces would fight, but obviously he was wrong.


当我6月在白宫接待加尼总统（Ashraf Ghani）和阿卜杜拉主席（Abdullah Abdullah）时，以及7月我再次与加尼通电话时，我们进行了非常坦诚的交谈。我们谈到了在美军离开后，阿富汗应该如何准备打他们的内战。肃清政府中的腐败，以便政府能够为阿富汗人民发挥作用。我们广泛地谈论了阿富汗领导人在政治上团结的必要性。他们没有做到这一点。我还敦促他们开展外交活动，寻求与塔利班达成政治解决。这一建议被断然拒绝。加尼先生坚持认为阿富汗部队会战斗，但显然他错了。
（编者按：我早警告过了，加尼不行）


So I’m left again to ask of those who argue that we should stay: How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans — Afghanistan’s civil war when Afghan troops will not?   How many more lives —American lives — is it worth?  How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?


因此，我不得不再次问那些主张我们应该留下的人。当阿富汗军队不愿意时，你们还要让我派多少代美国的儿女去打阿富汗的内战？还有多少生命，美国人的生命，值得，阿灵顿国家公墓还有多少无尽的墓碑？（编者按：唤起和利用国内的反战情绪）


I’m clear on my answer: I will not repeat the mistakes we’ve made in the past — the mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict that is not in the national interest of the UnitedStates, of doubling down on a civil war in a foreign country, of attempting to remake a country through the endless military deployments of U.S. forces. Those are the mistakes we cannot continue to repeat, because we have significant vital interests in the world that we cannot afford to ignore.


我很清楚我的答案。我不会重复我们过去犯过的错误。在一场不符合美国国家利益的冲突中无限期地停留和战斗，在一个外国的内战中加倍努力，试图通过美国军队的无休止的军事部署来重塑一个国家，这种错误。这些都是我们不能继续重复的错误，因为我们在世界有重大的重要利益，我们不能忽视。


I also want to acknowledge how painful thisis to so many of us. The scenes we’re seeing in Afghanistan, they’re gut-wrenching, particularly for our veterans, our diplomats, humanitarian workers, for anyone who has spent time on the ground working to support the Afghan people. For those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and for Americans who have fought and served in the country — serve our country in Afghanistan — this is deeply, deeply personal.It is for me as well.


我也想承认这对我们许多人来说是多么的痛苦。我们在阿富汗看到的场景，它们令人心碎，特别是对我们的退伍军人、我们的外交官、人道主义工作者；对任何在当地花时间支持阿富汗人民的人来说。对于那些在阿富汗失去亲人的人，以及在阿富汗为我们的国家战斗和服务的美国人来说，这是深深的、深深的个人问题。这对我来说也是如此。


I’ve worked on these issues as long as anyone. I’ve been throughout Afghanistan during this war — while the war was going on — from Kabul to Kandahar to the Kunar Valley. I’ve traveled there on four different occasions.  I met with the people.  I’ve spoken to the leaders.  I spent time with our troops.  And I came to understand firsthand what wasand was not possible in Afghanistan. So, now we’re fercus [sic] — focused on what is possible.

我和其他人一样长期从事这些问题的研究。在这场战争中，当战争进行时，我一直在阿富汗各地，从喀布尔到坎大哈，到库纳尔谷。我曾在四个不同的场合去过那里。我与人民见面。我与领导人交谈过。我和我们的部队在一起，我亲身了解到在阿富汗什么是可能的，什么是不可能的。因此，现在我们专注于什么是可能的。


We will continue to support the Afghan people. We will lead with our diplomacy, our international influence, and our humanitarian aid. We’ll continue to push for regional diplomacy and engage mentto prevent violence and instability. We’ll continue to speak out for the basic rights of the Afghan people — of women and girls — just as we speak out all over the world.


我们将继续支持阿富汗人民。我们将以我们的外交、我们的国际影响力和我们的人道主义援助来领导。我们将继续推动区域外交和参与，以防止暴力和不稳定。我们将继续为阿富汗人民、妇女和女孩的基本权利大声疾呼，就像我们在世界各地大声疾呼一样。 （编者按：打仗我不行，履行责任只能靠“呼吁”了）


I have been clear that human rights must be the center of our foreign policy, not the periphery.  But the way to do it is not through endless military deployments; it’s with our diplomacy, our economic tools, and rallying the world to join us.


我一直很清楚，HR必须是我们外交政策的中心，而不是边缘。但做到这一点的方法不是通过无休止的军事部署。而是通过我们的外交、我们的经济工具和号召世界加入我们。


Now, let me lay out the current mission in Afghanistan.  I was asked to authorize —and I did — 6,000 U.S. troops to deploy to Afghanistan for the purpose of assisting in the departure of U.S. and Allied civilian personnel from Afghanistan, and to evacuate our Afghan allies and vulnerable Afghans to safety outside of Afghanistan. Our troops are working to secure the airfield and to ensure continued operation of both the civilian and military flights.  We’re taking over air traffic control. We have safely shut down our embassy and transferred our diplomats.  Our diplomatic presence is now consolidated at the airport as well.


让我介绍一下目前在阿富汗的任务。我被要求授权，而且我也授权了，6000名美国部队部署到阿富汗，目的是协助美国和盟国的文职人员离开阿富汗，并将我们的阿富汗盟友和脆弱的阿富汗人疏散到阿富汗境外的安全地带。我们的部队正在努力确保机场的安全，并确保民用和军用航班的持续运行。我们正在接管空中交通管制。我们已经安全地关闭了我们的大使馆并转移了我们的外交官。我们的外交人员现在在机场也得到了巩固。


Over the coming days, we intend to transport out thousands of American citizens who have been living and working in Afghanistan. We’ll also continue to support the safe departure of civilian personnel — the civilian personnel of our Allies who are still serving in Afghanistan. Operation Allies Refugee [Refuge], which I announced back in July, has already moved 2,000 Afghans who are eligible for Special Immigration Visasand their families to the United States.

在未来的日子里，我们打算把一直在阿富汗生活和工作的数千名美国公民运送出去。我们还将继续支持文职人员的安全离开，仍在阿富汗服役的我们盟友的文职人员。我在7月宣布的‘盟友避难行动’（Operation Allies Refuge）已经将2000名有资格获得特别移民签证的阿富汗人及其家人转移到美国。 （编者按：灯塔只能救2000人，剩下的2000万人自求多福吧）
In the coming days, the U.S. military will provide assistance to move more SIV-eligible Afghans and their families out of Afghanistan. We’re also expanding refugee access to cover other vulnerable Afghans who worked for our embassy: U.S. non-governmental agencies — or the U.S. non-governmental organizations; and Afghans who otherwise are at greatrisk; and U.S. news agencies.


在未来的日子里，美国军方将提供援助，将更多符合特别移民签证条件的阿富汗人及其家人迁出阿富汗。我们还在扩大难民准入，以涵盖为我们的大使馆工作的其他脆弱的阿富汗人。美国非政府组织和美国新闻机构中本来就有很大风险的阿富汗人；


I know that there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghans — civilians sooner.  Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier — still hopeful for their country.  And part of it was because the Afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, “a crisis of confidence.”


我知道有人担心我们为什么不早点开始疏散阿富汗平民。部分答案是一些阿富汗人不想早点离开，仍然对他们的国家充满希望。还有一部分是因为阿富汗政府及其支持者不鼓励我们组织大规模的撤离，以避免引发，正如他们所说的，信任危机。


American troops are performing this mission as professionally and as effectively as they always do, but it is not with outrisks. As we carry out this departure, we have made it clear to the Taliban: If they attack our personnel or disrupt our operation, the U.S. presence will be swift and the response will be swift and forceful.  We will defend our people with devastating force if necessary.


美国部队正像以往一样专业而有效地执行这一任务。但这并非没有风险。在我们执行这次出发时，我们已经向塔利班明确表示。如果他们袭击我们的人员或破坏我们的行动，美国的存在将是迅速的，反应也将是迅速而有力的。如果有必要，我们将以毁灭性的力量保卫我们的人民。


Our current military mission will be short in time, limited in scope, and focused in its objectives: Get our people and our allies to safety as quickly as possible. And once we have completed this mission, we will conclude our military withdrawal.  We will end America’s longest war after 20 long years of bloodshed.


我们目前的军事任务时间短，范围有限，目标集中。尽可能安全、迅速地救出我们的人民和我们的盟友。而一旦我们完成了这一任务，我们将结束我们的军事撤退。我们将在长达20年的流血冲突后结束美国最漫长的战争。




The events we’re seeing now are sadly proof that no amount of military force would ever deliver a stable, united, and secure Afghanistan — as known in history as the “graveyard of empires.” What is happening now could just as easily have happened 5 years ago or 15 years in the future.  We have to be honest: Our mission in Afghanistan has taken many missteps — made many missteps over the past two decades.


我们现在看到的事件可悲地证明，再多的军事力量也无法提供一个稳定、统一、安全的阿富汗，在历史上被称为“帝国坟场”。现在发生的事情可能在5年前或15年后同样容易发生。我们必须诚实，我们在阿富汗的任务在过去20年中犯了许多错误。



（编者按：帝国坟场呐，不跑等着被埋吗？）


I’m now the fourth American President to preside over war in Afghanistan — two Democrats and two Republicans.  I will not pass this responsibly on —responsibility on to a fifth President. I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference.  Nor will I shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here.I am President of the United States of America, and the buck stops with me.


我现在是第四位在阿富汗主持战争的美国总统。两位民/主党人和两位共和党人。我不会把这个责任转嫁给第五位总统。我不会误导美国人民，声称只要在阿富汗多花一点时间就会有很大改观。我也不会逃避我对我们今天的处境以及我们必须从这里向前迈进的那份责任。我是美利坚合众国的总统，责任由我承担。
（编者按：把仓皇逃离，塑造成勇于承担、不推卸责任的领导，职场高手，正国级甩锅水平！！）

I am deeply saddened by the facts we now face.  But I do not regret my decision to end America’s warfighting in Afghanistan and maintain a laser-focus on our counterterrorism missions there and in other parts of the world. Our mission to degrade the terrorist threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and kill Osama binLaden was a success. Our decades-long effort to overcome centuries of history and permanently change and remake Afghanistan was not, and I wrote and believed it never could be.


我对我们现在面临的事实深感悲哀。但我不后悔我决定结束美国在阿富汗的战争，并保持对我们在那里和世界其他地区的反恐任务的激光关注。我们在阿富汗削弱基地组织的恐怖威胁并杀死奥萨马·本·拉登的任务是成功的。我们为克服几个世纪的历史并永久地改变和重塑阿富汗所做的几十年的努力并不成功，我写道并相信它永远不可能成功。
（编者按：理想很美好，但臣妾做不到！）


I can not and I will not ask our troops tofight on endlessly in another — in another country’s civil war, taking casualties, suffering life-shattering injuries, leaving families broken by grief and loss. This is not in our national security interest.  It is not what the American people want.  It is not what our troops, who have sacrificed so much over the past two decades, deserve.


我不能也不会要求我们的部队在另一个国家的内战中无休止地战斗，造成人员伤亡，遭受破坏性的伤害，使家庭因悲痛和损失而破碎。这不符合我们的国家安全利益。这不是美国人民想要的。这不是我们的部队在过去20年中作出如此大的牺牲所应得的。


I made a commitment to the American people when I ran for President that I would bring America’s military involvement in Afghanistan to an end.  And while it’s been hard and messy — and yes, far from perfect — I’ve honored that commitment.


我在竞选总统时向美国人民承诺，我将结束美国在阿富汗的军事介入。虽然这很艰难，很混乱，而且，是的，远非完美，但我已经履行了这个承诺。


More importantly, I made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation that I wasn’t going to ask themto continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago. Our leaders did that in Vietnam when I got here as a young man.  I will not do it in Afghanistan.


更重要的是，我向为这个国家服务的勇敢的男女作出承诺，我不会要求他们继续在早就应该结束的军事行动中冒生命危险。当我作为一个年轻人来到这里时，我们的领导人在越南这样做了。我不会在阿富汗这样做。
（编者按：唤起越战期间反战情绪，高手）


I know my decision will be criticized, but I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another President of the United States — yet another one — a fifth one. Because it’s the right one — it’s the right decision for our people.  The right one for our brave service members who have risked their lives serving our nation. And it’s the right one for America.


我知道我的决定会受到批评。但我宁愿接受所有这些批评，也不愿意把这个决定传给另一位美国总统，又一位，第五位总统。因为这是一个正确的决定，对我们的人民来说是正确的决定。对我们冒着生命危险为我们的国家服务的勇敢的军人来说是正确的。这也是对美国的正确决定。


So, thank you.  May God protect our troops, our diplomats,and all of the brave Americans serving in harm’s way.


谢谢你们。愿上帝保护我们的部队、我们的外交官和所有在危险中服务的勇敢的美国人。