"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

This is a recurring rhetoric, this notion that there is a cancer in the body politic.

这是一种经常反复出现的修辞，这个国家的政治体系是有潜在的危险的。

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