【preventive war】预防性战争

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【preventive war】预防性战争

■ Both President Trump and his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, have talked openly about a last-resort option if diplomacy fails and the nuclear threat mounts: what General McMaster describes as “preventive war.”

特朗普总统和他的国家安全顾问都在公开讨论一旦外交手段失败、核威胁出现后的最后选择：麦克马斯特将军称之为“预防性战争

”。

Though the Pentagon has prepared options to pre-emptively strike North Korea’s nuclear and missile sites for more than a decade and the past four presidents declared that “all options are on the table,” the rote phrase barely seemed credible, given the potential for a North Korean counterstrike against Seoul, South Korea, that could result in tremendous casualties in a metropolitan area of 25 million people.

尽管五角大楼十多年来一直准备先发制人，打击朝鲜核导基地，前四任总统也都宣称“不没人当真排除任何选择”，可这种套话没人当真，因为如果朝鲜反攻韩国首尔，会给这所2500万人口的国际大都市带来巨大伤亡。（《纽约时报》）