問題：
What is the worst action that each of the last five presidents have done?
最近的五任總統做過的最糟糕的事情是什麼？
回答：
Kenny Cota：（History enthusiast, living in Britain）
（歷史愛好者，現居不列顛）
Barack Obama
貝拉克·奧巴馬：
Trying to work with the Republicans for the first four years of his Presidency. This resulted in too many compromises with people whose stated objective was to make him a ‘one term President’ over all else.
在他的第一個四年任期內，試圖和共和黨合作。這讓他對於那些致力於讓他“一輪遊”的堅定反對者們做了太多的妥協。
George W. Bush
喬治·W·布什：
Invading Iraq.
入侵伊拉克。
Gaining revenge for 9/11 on a power that had little to do with it made no sense, and just gained us a generation of Arabs who view America as an aggressive colonial power.
為9·11事件復仇其實與此沒多大關係。這事兒做的沒價值，唯一的結果就是帶來了一代阿拉伯人的仇恨，他們把美國視為侵略性的殖民大國。
That banner behind him is probably one of the most ironic things in recent history.
布什身後的這個標語稱得上是現代歷史上最具諷刺意味的事情之一了。
（背後標語“任務完成”）
Bill Clinton
比爾·克林頓
Deregulation of the banking sector, which allowed for the banks to crash the economy with subprime lending.
放鬆對銀行業的監管。這給了他們用次級貸款摧毀經濟的能力。
Previous administrations were responsible for this as well, but you’d expect a Democrat to try and do something about it.
當然，前幾屆政府對此也有責任，但他是民主黨的啊，人們總是期待民主黨人在這方面能有所作為。
I don’t personally find his sex scandals that big a deal.
我個人不認為他的性醜聞是多大點兒事兒。
George H.W. Bush
喬治· H·W·布什：
Leaving Saddam in power after the Gulf War.
海灣戰爭後，留下了薩達姆政權。
If ever there was an opportunity to remove him, it was after he had gained the ire of the Muslim world by invading Iran and then invading Kuwait. He had also just committed a genocide of the Kurdish people, using chemical weapons.
如果說曾經有一個機會可以推翻薩達姆，那就是在他接連入侵了伊朗和科威特之後，那時他已經激起了整個穆斯林世界的怒火。同時，他還用化學武器對庫爾德人進行種族滅絕。
Given that the USA intervened, it would have been sensible to remove Saddam at that point when it wouldn’t have been seen as an anti-Muslim and colonial action, as other Arab states wanted the intervention as well.
假使那時候美國干預進去，推翻薩達姆政權就會被當做是正義明智的，而不會像後來那樣跟反穆斯林以及殖民主義掛鉤，因為那時候其它阿拉伯國家也想這麼幹。
Ronald Reagan
羅納德·里根：
Funding Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan comes to mind.
說起里根，我就想起資助阿富汗的奧薩馬·本·拉登這回事兒了。
However I’d say it was acceding to the demands of the military-industrial complex and increasing the military budget by a staggering 43%, getting the country into deficit and debt, for someone who was meant to be fiscally conservative.
然而我要說的是，這其實是為了滿足軍工聯合體的要求，同時也把軍事預算提高了43%，使整個國家陷入赤字和債務中，這注定了這個人要在財政上持保守態度。
The Iran-Contra affair was shocking as well.
伊朗門也很令人震驚。
（伊朗門事件是，美國向伊朗秘密出售武器一事被揭露，從而造成里根政府嚴重政治危機的事件，因人們把它與尼克松水門事件相比，故名伊朗門事件。）
Generally, not a fan of Reagan though I can see why people like him.
通常來說，我不喜歡里根，但我能理解人們為什麼喜歡他。
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