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在美国人纪念9·11恐怖袭击25周年之际，美国前总统乔治·W·布什周三发表了罕见言论，称美国人“未汲取9·11事件教训”。
“我们国家偶尔会陷入孤立主义时期，当时的态度是‘好吧，我们国内问题太多了，因此何必操心海外发生的事？’”布什说道。袭击发生时，他上任仅9个月。“在我看来，这恰恰说明他们没有汲取9·11的教训，因为海外发生的事情关乎我们国内的国家安全。”
布什是在达拉斯的总统图书馆与康多莉扎·赖斯一同谈及此事的。赖斯在袭击发生时担任美国国家安全顾问，之后出任国务卿。
他表示，当人们“与暴政抗争”时，美国介入是“合乎情理的”。
“我们不必派遣军队，”布什说，“我们至少应该与他们站在一起，支持他们，因为250年前我们也曾经历过这一切。再者，我们坚信人人都渴望自由，我们在阿富汗就见证了这一点。”
布什在9·11袭击后发动了阿富汗战争，随后在塔利班多年虐待平民后支持建立民主政府。但这场冲突持续了20年，成为美国史上最长的战争，直到2021年美国撤军，阿富汗再次落入塔利班统治。
布什表示，他不同意部分美国人的观点，即阿富汗人“不知道”生活在自由之下是何种滋味。
“他们当然知道区别何在，”布什说，“首次踏入校园的年轻女孩知道区别何在。成为医生和教授的女性知道自由社会与专制社会的区别。可悲的是，这些开始充分发挥自身潜力的女性，如今再也没有机会实现她们的潜能了。”
布什周三回忆道，2001年9月11日，他正在一所小学访问，时任白宫办公厅主任安迪·卡德向他通报了袭击事件。
在那一刻，“我成为了战时总统，”布什说，“这是一场战争，总统、国家及其团队的职责是团结全国人民，并采取必要措施保护我们的民众。”
布什和赖斯回忆道，在9·11事件中，“每架飞机都变成了导弹”，因此当局下令所有飞机必须降落，否则可能被击落。他们表示，时任交通部长诺曼·峰田“试图用便签纸指挥飞机降落”，他们当时担心美国军方是否击落了93号航班——尽管最终并未发生这一情况。这架航班在乘客试图夺回被劫持的控制权后，坠毁在宾夕法尼亚州尚克斯维尔的一片田野中。
“有一段可怕的时刻，副总统一直在努力确认发生了什么，大约10分钟的时间里，我们以为自己击落了一架民用飞机，”赖斯说，“这对我来说始终代表着，你在巨大压力下必须做出的决定有多艰难。”
布什表示，袭击发生后，他“感觉到了巨大的创伤”，但直到“亲自前往现场”才意识到“情况有多糟糕”。
2001年9月14日，他前往世贸中心遗址“归零地”并发表演讲，站在废墟之中与急救人员在一起。他周三表示，帮助国家恢复正常是他的首要任务。
时任总统乔治·W·布什于2001年9月14日在世贸中心袭击现场与救援人员、消防员和警察交谈。埃里克·德拉珀 / 白宫 / 盖蒂图片社 / 白宫
“我不希望我们丧失自己的灵魂，”布什说，“我希望，在我们捍卫自由之际，人们能记住自由有多么珍贵。”
他还回忆起袭击发生后不久他拜访一座清真寺的经历，“因为我非常担忧有色人种女性在购物中心遭到骚扰的报道，尤其是在密歇根州。”
“我清楚地意识到，这是一场意识形态之争，我也是这么看待这场斗争的，而我们放弃了自身意识形态中最重要的部分之一，即按照自己的意愿崇拜的自由，”他说，“突然间，敌人就赢了一场战斗，这也是我当时的想法之一。”
布什和赖斯还回忆道，他们不得不转向“9·12次日”的思维模式，因为“我们需要主动出击”以防止再次遭遇袭击。
“如今的人们无法理解9·11之后那些为保护国家而奋战的日子有多沉重，”赖斯说。
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/george-w-bush-looks-back-on-911-after-25-years/
乔治·W·布什回顾25年后的9·11事件
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George W. Bush says Americans “don’t pay attention to the lesson of 9/11”
September 10, 2026 / 11:40 AM EDT / CBS News
Former President George W. Bush gave rare remarks on Wednesday as Americans mark25 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying that Americans “don’t pay attention to the lesson of 9/11.”
“Our nation occasionally goes through isolationist periods, where the attitude is, ‘Well, we’ve got too many problems at home. Therefore, who cares about what happens overseas?’” said Bush, who was nine months into his first term when the attacks occurred. “Which really means to me they just don’t pay attention to the lessons of 9/11, because what happens overseas matters to our national security at home.”
Bush spoke about it at his presidential library in Dallas with Condoleezza Rice, who served as national security adviser at the time of the attacks and then went on to become secretary of state.
He said that as people are “struggling against tyranny, it makes sense” for the U.S. to get involved.
“We don’t have to send troops,” Bush said. “We ought to at least stand with them and stand beside them because this is what we went through 250 years ago. And again, it’s a belief that everybody wants to be free and we saw that in Afghanistan.”
Bush launched the war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, and then supported the development of a democratic government after years of humanitarian abuses by the Taliban. But the conflict dragged on for 20 years, becoming America’s longest war, until the U.S. withdrew andAfghanistan came under Taliban rulerule again in 2021.
Bush said he disagrees with the view of some Americans who say people there “don’t know the difference” of what it is like to live under freedom.
“Of course they know the difference,” Bush said. “Young girls going to schoolfor the first time in their lives know the difference. Women becoming doctors and professors know the difference between a free society and a tyrannical society. And sadly, these women who begin to realize their full potential no longer have a chance to realize their full potential.”
Bush recalled on Wednesday that he had been visiting an elementary school on Sept. 11, 2001, when his then-chief of staff Andy Card told him about the attacks.
In that moment, “I became a wartime president,” Bush said. “This was a war, and that the job of the president and the country and his team is to rally the nation and to do what’s necessary to protect our people.”
Bush and Rice recalled that on 9/11, “every plane had become a missile,” so there were orders for all planes to land or they could be shot down. Then-Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, they said, was “trying to land planes on a legal pad” and they worried about whether Flight 93 had been shot down by the U.S. military — though that did not turn out to be the case. The plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers tried to wrest control from the hijackers.
“There was this horrible moment where the vice president kept trying to get confirmation as to what had happened, and for about 10 minutes, we thought we’d shot down a civilian aircraft,” Rice said. “And that always to me represented just how hard the decisions that you had to take under a lot of pressure.”
Bush said that in the aftermath of the attacks, he “had a sense there was a lot of trauma” but didn’t realize “how bad it was ’till I went there.”
He visited and gave a speech at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center, on Sept. 14, 2001 — standing amid the wreckage with first responders. He said Wednesday that helping the country returning to normal was his highest priority.
Then-President George W. Bush speaks to rescue workers, firefighters and police officers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 14, 2001. Eric Draper / White House / Getty Images / The White House
“I didn’t want us to lose our soul,” Bush said. “I wanted, as we defended our freedoms, I wanted people to remember how precious they are.”
He also also recalled how he visited a mosque shortly after the attacks “because I was deeply concerned about stories of women of color being harassed at shopping centers, particularly in Michigan.”
“It became clear to me that this is an ideological struggle, which is what I viewed it as, and we forego one of the most important parts of our ideology, which is the freedom to worship the way you want to worship,” he said. “All of a sudden, the enemy has won a victory, and so that was part of my thinking.”
Bush and Rice also recalled how they had to shift to a “Sept. 12” mentality because “we needed to go on the offense” to prevent another attack.
“People now don’t understand the heaviness of the days after 9/11 in trying to protect the country,” Rice said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/george-w-bush-looks-back-on-911-after-25-years/
George W. Bush looks back on 9/11 after 25 years
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