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洗心 发表于 2013-11-17 03:14
前两天微薄上有个叫嚣中国必须一战才能崛起的脑残还跟我硬掰现在德国受到尊敬是因为发动了两次世界大战。 ...
我前段时间读了本一战史,The First World War by John Keegan。书的结尾的一段话给我的印象特别深。
But then the First World War is a mystery. Its origins are mysterious. So is its course. Why did a prosperous continent, at the height of its success as a source and agent of global wealth and power and at one of the peaks of intellectual and cultural achievement, choose to risk all it had won for itself and all it offered to the world in the lottery of a vicious and local internecine conflict? Why, when the hope of bringing the conflict to a quick and decisive conclusion was everywhere dashed to the ground within months of its outbreak, did the combatants decide nevertheless to persist in their military effort, to mobilize for total war and eventually to commit the totality of their young manhood to mutual and existentially pointless slaughter. Principle was perhaps at stake; but the principle of the sanctity of international treaty, which brought Britain into the war, scarcely merited the price eventually paid for its protection. Defense of the national territory was at stake also, the principle for which France fought at almost unbearable damage to its national well-being. Defense of the principle of mutual security agreement, underlying the declarations of Germany and Russia, was pursued to the point where security lost all meaning in the dissolution of state structure. Simple state interest, Austria's impulse and the oldest of all reasons for war making, proved, as the pillars of imperialism collapsed about the Habsburgs, no interest at all.
我也是希望中国包括东亚东南亚各国的外交不要向这个方向发展。
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