总统候选人希拉里·克林顿和唐纳德·特朗普在周三晚间的电视论坛发布了各自的对外政策。希拉里驾轻就熟，特朗普指责了美国将军。
在纽约无畏号航空母舰上举办的总司令论坛中，两位候选人回答了退伍军人和NBC主持人马特·劳尔提出问题。二人并未同时出现，答疑耗时约一个半小时。
在希拉里出任国务卿期间，她陷入了“邮件门”。她说：“我不应该用私人邮箱办公，我绝对不会再犯这样的错误。”
她也承认，在2002年支持对伊拉克发动战争是个错误的决定。她说：“我认为对伊拉克发动战争的决策是错误的。我也承认，支持布什总统的发动战争是我的错误。”
希拉里说道：“我也相信，我们必须从中吸取教训。”她表示，她所处的位置最有责任避免错误再度发生，她还要求对她所做的一切进行评判。
希拉里被指责太过强硬专权，对此评价她则不予理会。她说：“我认为武力不应是首选，而应是最后的选择。我会在我的能力范围内，尽我最大的努力来确保我们的军人做好了准备，去迎接他们不得不代替我们面对的挑战。”
特朗普严重批评了部队的高级领导人，批评他们已在奥巴马的领导下失去了自我，军队也被消耗殆尽。在问及如何打败伊斯兰国家时，特朗普公开表示，现在的将军们令我们的国家十分尴尬。如果他竞选成功，他会向他的将军们寻求建议，“此将军非彼将军。”
特朗普说：“我们的外交政策是最差的，甚至是最蠢的。”但他并未提出具体的政策。
特朗普在竞选活动中一如既往，并未提出外交政策的细节。他有时还会发表一些让人感到困惑的评论，比如对俄罗斯总统普京的称赞。特朗普说：“如果他称赞我，那我也会称赞他。”在普京治下，俄罗斯一直在扩张，并试图削弱美国的影响力，俄罗斯也是入侵民主党全国委员会的头号嫌疑人。特朗普对于这些问题则避而不谈。特朗普说：“事实真相没有人能搞清楚。”他认为普京“对俄罗斯有极高的控制力。”
特朗普曾在2013年发表推特，表示部队中的性侵犯行为是不可避免的。他对这个问题进行了自我辩护，并再次强调出兵伊拉克是个重大的错误。
Stark divide as Clinton, Trump talk foreign policy
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump laid out their thoughts on foreign policy during a televised forum Wednesday night, with Clinton touting her years of experience and Trump railing against America’s generals.
The candidates fielded questions from a crowd of military veterans and NBC moderator Matt Lauer for about a half hour each at the “Commander in Chief Forum” held on the USS Intrepid in New York, although they appeared separately.
Clinton was grilled on her use of private emails during her term as secretary of state. “It was a mistake to have a personal account. I would certainly not do it again,” Clinton said.
She also admitted that voting to authorize the invasion of Iraq in 2002, when she was a senator, was wrong. “I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake,” she said. “ And I have said that my voting to give President Bush that authority was, from my perspective, my mistake.”
“I also believe that it is imperative that we learn from the mistakes,” Clinton continued, saying she was in the best position to make sure such mistakes don’t happen again and asking to be judged on the totality of her record.
Clinton also dismissed criticism that she was hawkish and too interventionist. “I view force as a last resort, not a first choice,” she said. “I will do everything in my power to make sure that our men and women in the military are fully prepared for any challenge that they may have to face on our behalf.”
Trump, meanwhile, sharply criticized the military’s top leaders, saying their ranks have been “reduced to rubble” under the Obama administration and that the military “is very sadly depleted.” When asked if he knew better than the generals on how to defeat the Islamic State — a claim Trump has publicly made — he said the current crop of generals are “embarrassing for our country,” and that if, as president, he were to ask his generals for advice, “They’ll probably be different generals.”
“We have had the worst and you could even say the dumbest foreign policy,” Trump said, while offering no specific policies.
As has been the case through the campaign, Trump remained vague on foreign policy details, and at times dropped troubling comments, such as praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. “If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him,” Trump said, dismissing a question regarding the fact that under Putin, Russia has moved to expand its military influence while attempting to undermine America’s, and is the prime suspect in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee. “Well, nobody knows that for a fact,” Trump said, noting that Putin has “great control over his country.”
Trump also defended a 2013 tweet he sent that said sexual assaults in the military were essentially inevitable, and repeated his false assertion that he opposed the Iraq war before it began.
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文章来源：http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stark-divide-as-clinton-trump-talk-foreign-policy-2016-09-07