General Petraeus appeared to be pointedly rejecting suggestions by some analysts, and some officials and members of Congress, that the United States should scale back its ground operations in Afghanistan and focus on air strikes and special operations missions.

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Where Aristotle made the courage of men in combat a central virtue of his ethics, Hobbes pointedly omits courage from his list of the moral virtues.

亚里士多德把战争中,勇敢的人作为最高美德，而霍布斯恰恰是把勇敢,从美德的列表里删掉了。

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