这一方针 — — 它建立在基于价值观的规则体系之上，而不是建立在个人交易基础上 — — 让美国得以创造和维持一个能够保证和平与和平合作的国家联盟。
It was this approach – one founded on a value-based system of rules, not on individual deals – that enabled the US to create and sustain a coalition of countries that could maintain peace and international cooperation.