启示之一国家行为的本质是利己8月16日,也就是塔利班控制喀布尔的第二天,美国总统拜登发表了关于阿富汗局势的谈话,他在谈话里,是这样说的:“Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy. Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland”翻译成中文,是这个意思:“我们美国人在阿富汗的任务本来就不是帮助阿富汗人建设他们的国家,也从来不是帮助他们创立统一的、仿照我们的制度的国家,我们在阿富汗唯一重要的国家利益一直是、今天也仍然是:防止有人利用阿富汗对美国本土发动恐怖袭击”