Wilson certainly and house probably thought of armed intervention only as a last, desperate resort.

威尔逊肯定认为，豪斯则也许认为，武装干涉只是最后不得已的办法。

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They use the Vietnamese war as an index to judge the deep influence armed intervention has on the devastation of the environment.

他们以越战为指标，来衡量武装干涉对环境破坏的深远影响。

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China and Russia, though they voted for UN sanctions on Colonel Qaddafi in the Security Council, presently balk at a no-fly zone, let alone armed intervention by troops.

中国与俄罗斯尽管在联合国安理会上同意制裁卡扎菲，但现在仍然犹豫是否要建立禁飞区，更不用说派驻武装部队了。

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"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

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And even when all non-military means have failed, armed intervention may still not be the right answer.

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Moscow and Beijing are strongly opposed to armed intervention, saying the outcome in Syria should be decided by its people.

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