Constructive US role in Asia-Pacific welcome

Updated: 2012-01-06 14:51

(Xinhua)

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Therefore, the United States has the greatest potential to secure world peace and stability, but it also has the greatest power to create chaos. With power comes responsibility, so the United States should exercise the utmost caution in the use of its military forces.

According to the new strategy, the United States should maintain a force that can win one major war while still being able to deter a second one, in contrast to the Pentagon's previous plan that empowered the US military to win two major wars at the same time.

The new strategy suggests a retreat from former military ambitions for the United States, which is dealing with a severe economic crisis domestically and two expensive wars overseas.

Over the past decade, the United States fought wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which cost thousands of lives and over $1 trillion.

The two wars became a heavy burden for the United States and caused a tremendous amount of suffering for the two Asian countries.

History teaches us that military intervention can't usher in lasting peace and prosperity in another country.

The United States should learn from its past painful experiences and play a constructive role in the Asia-Pacific instead of recklessly practising militarism. After all, might does not always make right.

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