放弃这场对“战争”的摩尼教式的口吻，美国重新赢得了前总统小布什所丢掉的政治合法性，同时又没有降低其战略信誉。
Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that “war” allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.