美国对德日转型投入了巨大的资源，让两国变为稳定、和平的民主国家，从而消除了它们成为敌国的可能，将它们塑造为抵御下一个潜在消极分水岭 — — 苏联的桥头堡。
America’s remarkable investment of resources in this outcome made both countries stable, peaceful democracies, thereby eliminating them as adversaries and turning them into vital bulwarks against the next harbinger of a negative watershed, the Soviet Union.