Hi Frens:
您认为以下的说法可以成立吗？
战争本身是残酷的？战争的原因可能有时可以谅解。
而战争的直接后果必是残忍的。
但是，如果战争长期以后，国度开始发展或已经发展，可能原因是由战争的冲刺，但是这可以为战争的正确立论吗?
"All of these forces for change can be thought of as benign. Yet in paradoxical ways, tragedies, too, contributed to Asia's rise. The Korean War was painful and destructive. But it led to a strategic American decision to encourage the rebuilding of Japan's economy and society—although this sadly swept under the carpet the dreadful record of Japan's actions in World War II. Japan's economic success in turn inspired the four tigers. The Vietnam War was equally painful. But the U.S. decision to hold the line in Indochina allowed Southeast Asian countries to become dynamos, rather than dominoes. The historical verdict on U.S. involvement in Vietnam is unfair: despite the ignominious retreat by the U.S. from Saigon, Vietnam ultimately applied to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)."
"Japan's record in World War II was disastrous. But if Japan had not succeeded early in the 20th century, Asia's development would have come much later. Japan inspired the rise of Asia."
Abstracted from THe Making of Modern Asia, by KISHORE MAHBUBANI, one of Asia's leading thinkers on its past—and future
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/ ... 25,00.html
Lao Zhu
