2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-An Argument Against NATO Entering Darfur

Darfur, the commissioners¹ will visit camps next to region of Sudan where according to aid groups more than one hundred thousand people have died in civil conflict, an estimated two million people has been displaced. This weekend morning edition we are hearing two proposed solutions to the crisis.

Yesterday, General Wesley Clark called for the deployment³ of NATO forces. Today Christopher Preble of the CATO institute says this is an African problem requiring an African solution.

The human tragedy in Darfur continuous, although the African Union has done heroic work attempting to stop the genocide there, more can and should be done. US policymaker should continue to work with African governments and with our NATO allies to seek a resolution to the crisis. However, given that American troops continued to make up a major part of all NATO forces, we should be extremely wary⁴ about a NATO mission that would deploy² US troops to the region. The rest of the world and some Americans mistakenly assume that the United State has the military power and the political will to intervene everywhere indefinitely. But we do not, as is demonstrated by the public's enrolling⁵ support from the current operation in Iraq and the military’s difficulties retaining and recruiting personnel.

To ask our troops to take on a new peacekeeping mission in East Africa shows a lack of respect for an overworked fighting force. Calls to deploy NATO troops to Darfur seem reasonable on the surface and other members states in NATO may choose to send troops there. But that is the decision for each individual government, consistent with the wishes of its citizens. The public demands that policymakers remain focused on the most urgent national security challenges. To the extent what is taking place in Darfur does not fall in this category. The solution to halting the genocide there must come from Africa with the world's help. Not the other way around. Fortunately, the neighboring African countries recognized what is in stake. New Nigerian and Egyptian peacekeepers have just arrived, while leaders in Chad, Kenya and even Libya have expressed concern and a willingness to resolve the conflict. The African Union has pledged to increase its forces in Sudan to more than seven thousand by next month, and then possibly again to around twelve thousand by next year.

Some sneer⁶ at the contributions made by the African countries despite the fact that the AU’s meager⁷ force has accomplished⁸ much already. The head of the UN mission to Sudan reports that since AU troops arrived quote things are getting better in Darfur. Humanitarian⁹ groups , NGOs and others are increasingly able to operate in the region. Negotiations¹⁰ to address the political crisis there are scheduled to resume at the end of the month. Given that our resources our limited, American should encourage other state to address humanitarian crisis before such crisis threaten regional security. The African Union is willing and able to confront crisis like the one in Darfur. Helping¹¹ it to do so will establish a precedent¹² for solving regional conflict and simultaneously¹³ allow Americans to share some of our burden to obligations as the world's policeman.

Commentary from Christopher Preble, he is director of foreign policy studies at the CATO institute.

1 commissioners   

n.专员( commissioner的名词复数 )；长官；委员；政府部门的长官

参考例句：

• The Commissioners of Inland Revenue control British national taxes. 国家税收委员管理英国全国的税收。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The SEC has five commissioners who are appointed by the president. 证券交易委员会有５名委员，是由总统任命的。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

2 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

3 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

4 wary   

adj.谨慎的，机警的，小心的

参考例句：

• He is wary of telling secrets to others.他谨防向他人泄露秘密。
• Paula frowned,suddenly wary.宝拉皱了皱眉头，突然警惕起来。

5 enrolling   

v.招收( enrol的现在分词 )；吸收；入学；加入；[亦作enrol]( enroll的现在分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They lashed out at the university enrolling system. 他们猛烈抨击大学的招生制度。 来自辞典例句
• You're enrolling in a country club, Billy. 你是注册加入乡村俱乐部了，比利。 来自辞典例句

6 sneer   

v.轻蔑；嘲笑；n.嘲笑，讥讽的言语

参考例句：

• He said with a sneer.他的话中带有嘲笑之意。
• You may sneer,but a lot of people like this kind of music.你可以嗤之以鼻，但很多人喜欢这种音乐。

7 meager   

adj.缺乏的，不足的，瘦的

参考例句：

• He could not support his family on his meager salary.他靠微薄的工资无法养家。
• The two men and the woman grouped about the fire and began their meager meal.两个男人同一个女人围着火，开始吃起少得可怜的午饭。

8 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

9 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

10 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

11 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

12 precedent   

n.先例，前例；惯例；adj.在前的，在先的

参考例句：

• Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?你要我做的事有前例可援吗？
• This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩。

13 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。