Sebastian Gorka(塞巴斯蒂安·戈尔卡), America’s counter-terrorism tsar, is abrasive(粗鲁的，生硬的). Critics of the Iran war are “testicularly challenged(缺乏勇气的（粗俗）)”. Journalists are “scumbags” or “punks”. As for terrorists, they must be vapourised into “red mist” and their bodies stacked “like cordwood”. Mr Gorka takes pride in his work. “I pinch myself everyday(每天掐自己以确认不是梦),” he enthuse(热情地说，充满激情地表达)d on a podcast last year. “I’ve been waiting about 25 years for this job.”
美国反恐沙皇塞巴斯蒂安·戈尔卡这个人非常粗鲁。伊朗战争的批评者是“睾丸有挑战”（骂人没种）。记者是“人渣”或“小混混”。至于恐怖分子，他们必须被汽化成“红色薄雾”，尸体像“木柴”一样堆起来。戈尔卡先生对自己的工作感到自豪。“我每天都掐自己，”他去年在一个播客中热情地说，“我等这份工作等了大约25年。”
It should therefore come as little surprise(毫不奇怪) that America’s new counter-terrorism strategy—hailed by Mr Gorka as his “life’s work”—is more polemic(激烈的争论，论战文章) than policy. For a magnum opus(巨著，代表作), it is short: just 16 pages, including covers and pictures. It is also light on detail(细节不足). The strategy identifies three “major types of terror groups”: narco-terrorists and transnational gangs; Islamist terrorists; and violent left-wing extremists. It says nothing about threats stemming from the war in Iran or the long-standing menace from right-wing extremists.(该战略确定了三类“主要恐怖组织”：毒品恐怖分子和跨国犯罪团伙；伊斯兰恐怖分子；以及暴力左翼极端分子。它完全没有提及伊朗战争引发的威胁或长期存在的右翼极端分子的威胁。) Described as “apolitical(非政治的，不关心政治的)”, the document is anything but(根本不是，绝不). Donald Trump’s name appears dozens of times in a nominally non-partisan(无党派的，超党派的) memo. “It’s not a strategy,” says Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It’s an ideological, political document that fails to analytically(分析性地) assess the counter-terrorism threat.”
因此，毫不奇怪，美国新的反恐战略——被戈尔卡先生誉为他的“毕生之作”——更像是政论而非政策。作为一部“巨著”，它很短：只有16页，包括封面和图片。细节也少。该战略确定了三类“主要恐怖组织”：毒品恐怖分子和跨国犯罪团伙；伊斯兰恐怖分子；以及暴力左翼极端分子。它完全没有提及伊朗战争引发的威胁或长期存在的右翼极端分子的威胁。该文件被描述为“非政治的”，但实则不然。唐纳德·特朗普的名字在一个名义上无党派的备忘录中出现了数十次。“这不是一个战略，”华盛顿近东政策研究所的马修·莱维特说，“这是一份意识形态的政治文件，未能对反恐威胁进行分析性评估。”
There is little new inside. The document largely spells out(详细说明) what the Trump administration has already been doing. The priority, it says, is going after(追捕，对付) drug cartels. For eight months, America’s armed forces have struck alleged “narco-terrorist” boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. To date, it has carried out 57 confirmed strikes, which have killed at least 192 people. The document boasts that sea-borne drug trafficking has decreased by 90%. The campaign’s dubious legality(可疑的合法性) aside, experts say the document betrays(暴露，显示出) a lack of focus. “If every criminal group is also a terrorist group there’s no distinction anymore,” warns Colin Clarke of the Soufan Centre, a non-profit. “It takes finite resources(有限的资源) away from fighting actual terrorist organisations.”
里面没有什么新东西。该文件主要阐述了特朗普政府已经在做的事情。它说优先事项是打击贩毒集团。八个月来，美国军队在加勒比海和太平洋打击了所谓的“毒品恐怖分子”船只。迄今为止，已进行了57次确认的打击，造成至少192人死亡。该文件吹嘘海上毒品贩运减少了90%。撇开该行动的合法性可疑不谈，专家们表示，该文件暴露出缺乏重点。“如果每个犯罪集团都是恐怖组织，那就不再有任何区别了，”非营利组织苏凡中心的科林·克拉克警告说，“这会从打击真正的恐怖组织中抽走有限的资源。”