听听英国工党议员Hilary Benn火遍全球演讲

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　　Thank you. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Before I respond to the debate, I would like to say this directly to the Prime Minister: although my right honorable friend the Leader of the Opposition and I will walk into different division of lobbies tonight, I am proud to speak from the same Dispatch Box as him. My right honorable friend is not a ‘terrorist sympathizer’. He is an honest, a principled, a decent and a good man, and I think the Prime Minister must now regret what he said yesterday and his failure to do what he should have done today which is simply to say, "I am sorry."

　　非常感谢，议长先生。在我 针对本次辩论发言之前，我希望直言不讳地对首相先生说：虽然今晚，我和我尊敬的朋友——反对党领袖将步入不同的投票厅，但是我依然很骄傲可以与他站在同一 边的讲台上演讲。我尊敬的朋友并不是恐怖分子的同情者，他是一个诚实的、有原则的、正派的好人。我想，首相先生现在一定很后悔他昨天说过的话以及他今天应 做却未做的事，那就是简单地说一句“抱歉”。

　　Now Mr Speaker, we have had an intense and impassioned debate – and rightly so, given the clear and present threat from Daesh, the gravity of the decision that rests upon the shoulders and the conscience of every single one of us, and the lives that we hold in our hands tonight. And whatever decision we reach, I hope we will treat one another with respect.

　　议长先生，我们已经进行了紧张而又充满激情的辩论，确定无疑的是，因为Daesh清晰而现实的威胁，今晚，我们每个人在双肩和良心上都承载着这份决定的庄严，多少人的生命掌握在我们手中。所以无论今晚我们做出怎样的决定，我都希望我们可以尊重彼此。

　　Now we have heard a number of outstanding speeches, and sadly time will prevent me from acknowledging them all but I would just like to single out the contributions both for and against the motion from my honorable and right honorable friends the members for Derby South, Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, Normanton Pontefract and Castleford, Barnsley Central, Wakefield, Wolverhampton South East, Brent North, Liverpool West Derby, Wirral West, Stoke on Trent North, Birmingham Ladywood and the honorable members for Reigate, South West Wiltshire, Tonbridge and Malling, Chichester and Wells.The question which confronts us in a very very complex conflict is at its heart very simple. What should we do with others to confront this threat to our citizens, our nation, other nations and the people who suffer under the yoke, the cruel yoke, of Daesh?

　　我们已经聆听了许多精彩的发言，但很遗憾，时间关系 我无法一一点出他们的名字。不过，我愿意挑选出一些来自我尊敬的朋友们的贡献——无论他们支持或反对此动议——来自Derby South, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, Barnsley Central, Wakefield, Wolverhampton South East, Brent North, Liverpool, West Derby, Wirral West, Stoke-on-Trent North, Birmingham Ladywood的（工党）议员，以及来自Reigate, South West Wiltshire, Tonbridge and Malling, Chichester和Wells的尊敬的（保守党）议员。尽管冲突十分复杂，我们面对的问题核心其实无比简单：当我们的公民、我们的国家以及其它国家面 临威胁时，当人们在Daesh的枷锁、沉重的枷锁下痛苦呻吟时，我们应该怎样做？

　　The Carnage in Paris brought home to us the clear and present danger we face from them. It could just as easily have been London or Glasgow or Leeds or Birmingham – and it could still be. And I believe we have a moral and a practical duty to extend the action we are already taking in Iraq to Syria. And I am also clear, and I say this to my colleagues, that the conditions set out in the emergency resolution passed at the Labor party conference in September have been met. We now have a clear and unambiguous UN Security Council resolution 2249, paragraph five of which specifically calls on member states to take all necessary measures; to redouble and co-ordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed specifically by ISIL and to eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria.

　　巴黎的大屠杀把这份来自它们的清晰而现实的危险带给 我们。这原本可能轻易发生在伦敦、格拉斯哥、或者利兹、或者伯明翰，现在依旧有这种可能。因此，我认为我们在道德上和实质上都有责任进一步扩大我们已经在 伊拉克和叙利亚进行的军事行动。我很清楚，并且我要对我的工党同僚们说，我们在九月份工党大会上通过的关于紧急状态决议的条件现已达成。我们现在有了清晰 的、毫不含混的联合国安理会第2249号决议。尤其是决议第5条中，明确地促请会员国“采取一切必要的措施，加倍做出努力并进行协调，防止和打击ISIL 所实施的恐怖主义行为，摧毁它们在伊拉克和叙利亚相当多的地方建立的庇护所”。

　　So the United Nations is asking us to do something. It is asking us to do something now. It is asking us to act in Syria as well as in Iraq. And it was a Labor government, if the honorable gentleman will bear with me, it was a Labor government that helped to found the United Nations at the end of the Second World War. And why did we do so? Because we wanted the nations of the world working together to deal with threats to international peace and security – and Daesh is unquestionably that.

　　所 以，联合国正在请求我们行动起来，它请求我们现在就行动起来，它请求我们在叙利亚和伊拉克都行动起来。当年，在二战结束时，正是工党政府帮助建立了联合 国。我们为什么要这么做？因为我们希望全世界各国团结起来，共同处理对国际和平和安全的威胁——毫无疑问，Daesh就是这样的威胁。

　　So given that the United Nations has passed this resolution, given that such action would be lawful under Article 51 of the UN charter, because every state has the right to defend itself, why would we not uphold the settled will of the United Nations, particularly when there is such support from within the region, including from Iraq?

　　现在联合国已经通过了这个决议，而且军事行动完全符合《联合国宪章》第51条：每个国家都有权自卫。为什么我们不能支持联合国已决定的意向？尤其是在包括伊拉克在内的该地区的国家都表示支持的情况下。

　　We are part of a coalition of over 60 countries standing together shoulder to shoulder to oppose their ideology and their brutality. Now Mr Speaker, all of us understand the importance of bringing an end to the Syrian civil war, and there is now some progress on a peace plan because of the Vienna talks. They are the best hope we have of achieving a ceasefire. Now that would bring an end to Assad’s bombing, leading to a transitional government and elections. And why is that vital? Both because it will help in the defeat of Daesh, and because it would enable millions of Syrians who have been forced to flee to do what every refugee dreams of: they just want to be able to go home.

　　我 们是超过60个国家的同盟的一员，我们肩并着肩，共同反击Daesh的价值观和血腥暴行。议长先生，当下我们每个人都明白结束叙利亚内战的重要性，而且在 维也纳会谈之后，和平计划也有了一定进展。这是达成停火的最大希望所在。这个计划将结束阿萨德政权的轰炸，并带来过渡政府和民主选举。为什么这个计划如此 重要？不仅因为它可以帮助击败Daesh，更因为它可以使数百万被迫逃离家园的叙利亚人都可以做到每个难民梦寐以求的事：他们只想回家。

　　Now Mr Speaker, no one in this debate doubts the deadly serious threat we face from Daesh and what they do – although sometimes we find it hard to live with the reality. We know that in June four gay men were thrown off the fifth story of a building in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor. We know that in August the 82-year-old guardian of the antiquities of Palmyra, Professor Khaled al-Assad, was beheaded and his headless body was hung from a traffic light. And we know that in recent weeks there has been the discovery of mass graves in Sinjar, one said to contain the bodies of older Yazidi women murdered by Daesh because they were judged too old to be sold for sex. We know they have killed 30 British tourists in Tunisia, 224 Russian holidaymakers on a plane, 178 people in suicide bombings in Beirut, Ankara and Suruc, 130 people in Paris – including those young people in the Bataclan, whom Daesh, in trying to justify their bloody slaughter, called them apostates engaged in prostitution and vice. If it had happened here they could have been our children, and we know they are plotting more attacks.

　　议 长先生，在座没有人会质疑Daesh以及它们的所作所为所带来的严重致命威胁，尽管有时我们依然会觉得直面现实太过残酷。我们知道，今年六月，在叙利亚的 Deirez-Zor，四名男同性恋被从五楼扔下来摔死；我们知道，今年八月，帕尔迈拉古迹的保护者，82岁的卡勒德－阿萨德教授被斩首，无头尸体被悬挂 于交通灯上；我们知道，几周前，在辛贾尔，多处集体屠杀坑被发现，其中一个坑中有年老的雅兹迪派妇女的尸体，她们惨遭屠戮的原因仅仅是她们被认定年纪太 大，无法被贩为性奴。我们知道，30名英国游客在突尼斯被杀；224名俄罗斯度假者在飞机上受难；178人在贝鲁特、安卡拉、苏鲁奇被自杀炸弹炸 死；130人在巴黎遇害，包括巴塔克兰剧院里的年轻人——Daesh竟还在试图为他们的血腥兽行诡辩，把这些年轻人称为“淫乱堕落的叛徒”……假如这些事 发生在英国，受害的就是我们的孩子！我们知道它们正在策划更多袭击。

　　So the question for each of us and for our national security is this: given that we know what they are doing, can we really stand aside and refuse to act fully in our self-defense against those who are planning these attacks? Can we really leave to others the responsibility for defending our national security when it is our responsibility? And if we do not act, what message would that send about our solidarity with those countries that have suffered so much, including Iraq and our ally France. Now France wants us to stand with them, and President Hollande, the leader of our sister Socialist Party, has asked for our assistance and help. And as we are undertaking air strikes in Iraq, where Daesh’s hold has been reduced, and we are already doing everything but engage in air strikes in Syria, should we not play our full part?

　　所 以各位和我们的国家安全正面对的问题就是：我们已经知道它们在做什么，但我们真的可以视若无睹，眼看它们策划袭击，却不全面自卫吗？我们真的可以袖手旁 观，让别人来保卫我们的国家安全，而推卸本应属于我们自己的责任吗？如果我们不采取行动，我们对那些遭受那么多苦难的国家发出了什么样“团结”的信息？包 括伊拉克，还有我们的盟友——法国。现在，法国需要我们与他们并肩作战。奥朗德总统——也是我们的姐妹党：法国社会党的党首——正请求我们的帮助。而且， 我们正在伊拉克进行空袭，Daesh的地盘已被缩小。除了没在叙利亚发动空袭，我们已经做了一切，那么为什么不能干脆全面参与呢？

　　Now Mr. Speaker, it has been argued in the debate that air strikes achieve nothing. Not so. Look at how Daesh’s forward march has been halted in Iraq. The house will remember that 14 months ago people were saying, ‘They are almost at the gates of Baghdad.’ And that is why we voted to respond to the Iraqi government’s request for help to defeat them. Look at how their military capacity and their freedom of movement has been put under pressure. Ask the Kurds about Sinjar and Kobane. Now of course air strikes alone will not defeat Daesh, but they make a difference because they are giving them a hard time and it is making it more difficult for them to expand their territory.

　　刚 刚辩论中有人提到：空袭没有作用。我认为并不尽然。我们来看看Daesh在伊拉克的前进势头是怎样被阻挡的。本院应该还记得，14个月前，人们惊呼：“它 们已经逼近巴格达了！”于是，我们投票决定答应伊拉克政府的请求，帮助击败它们。想知道它们的军事实力和移动自由受到了多大打击吗？去问问辛贾尔和科瓦尼 的库尔德人吧！当然当然，仅靠空袭当然不能摧毁Daesh，但是这比袖手旁观要好得多！因为空袭会让它们难过，会让它们更难以扩张地盘。

　　Now I share the concerns that have been expressed this evening about potential civilian casualties. However unlike Daesh, none of us today act with the intent to harm civilians. Rather we act to protect civilians from Daesh, who target innocent people.

　　我也同意今晚诸位对于平民伤亡所表达出的担心。但是，除了Daesh，我们没有人希望伤害平民！相反，我们的行动正是在保护无辜平民免受Daesh的伤害！

　　Now on the subject of ground troops to defeat Daesh, there has been much debate about the figure of 70,000 and the government must, I think, better explain that. But we know that most of them are currently engaged in fighting President Assad. But I tell you what else we know: it’s whatever the number - 70,000, 40,000, 80,000 - the current size of the opposition forces mean the longer we leave taking action, the longer Daesh will have to decrease that number. And so to suggest, Mr Speaker, that air strikes should not take place until the Syrian civil war has come to an end is, I think, to miss the urgency of the terrorist threat that Daesh poses to us and others and I think misunderstands the nature and objectives of the extension to air strikes that is being proposed.And of course we should take action - it is not a contradiction between the two - to cut off Daesh’s support in the form of money and fighters and weapons, and of course we should give humanitarian aid and of course we should offer shelter to more refugees, including in this country, and yes we should commit to play our full part in helping to rebuild Syria when the war is over.

　　关 于出动地面部队击溃Daesh的问题，辩论焦点集中在“7万人”的数字上，我认为，政府需要作出更明确的解释。我们清楚这些人中的大多数正在和阿萨德总统 作战。然而，我想提醒诸位的是，无论这个数字是7万，4万还是8万，现在的反对派武装人数意味着，我们越晚采取行动，Daesh就会把这个人数减到越低。 所以，议长先生，我认为那些表示“在叙利亚内战结束之前不应进行空袭”的意见罔顾了Daesh给我们和他人带来的恐怖主义威胁的紧迫性，并且误解了计划中 空袭的实质和目的。我们当然应该采取行动，以斩断Daesh获得金钱、战士以及武器的渠道。与此同时，我们当然应该给予人道主义援助，我们当然应该为包括 在英国的叙利亚难民在内的所有难民提供庇护，这与军事行动并不矛盾。而且，没错，我们当然应该承诺在战后对叙利亚的重建给予全面帮助。

　　Now I accept that there are legitimate arguments, and we’ve heard them in the debate, for not taking this form of action now, and it is also clear that many members have wrestled and who knows, in the time that is left may still be wrestling, with what the right thing to do is. But I say the threat is now and there are rarely if ever perfect circumstances in which to deploy military forces. Now we heard very powerful testimony from the honorable member for Edisbury earlier when she quoted that passage, and I just want to read what Karwan Jamal Tahir, the Kurdistan regional government high representative in London, said last week, and I quote: ‘Last June Daesh captured one third of Iraq overnight, and a few months later attacked the Kurdistan region. Swift air strikes by Britain, America and France, and the actions of our own Peshmerga saved us. We now have a border of 650 miles with Daesh. We have pushed them back and recently captured Sinjar. Again Western air strikes were vital. But the old border between Iraq and Syria does not exist. Daesh fighters come and go across this fictional boundary.’ And that is the argument, Mr Speaker, for treating the two countries as one if we are serious about defeating Daesh.

　　我 承认有人提出了合法性上的担忧，正如我们在辩论中听到的，认为不应该采取军事行动。很明显，很多议员争论的是“究竟怎么做才是正确的”，而且在剩余的时间 里，可能还会继续为此争论。但是我想说，威胁就在眼前，但出动军事力量这种事几乎不存在什么完美的前提。我们刚才已经听到了来自Eddisbury的尊敬 的议员的有力证词，她引用了这段话。我也愿意为大家朗读一段来自库尔德斯坦地方政府驻伦敦高级专员Karwan Jamal Tahir上周所说的话，如下：“去年六月，Daesh在一夜之间就占领了伊拉克三分之一的土地，数月后就开始进攻库尔德斯坦。是英国、美国和法国及时的 空袭，以及我们库尔德自由民兵的战斗拯救了我们。我们现在与Daesh之间有650英里的边界。我们将它们击退，重新夺回了辛贾尔城，西方的空袭又一次帮 助良多。但是伊拉克和叙利亚原来的边境线早已不复存在，Daesh的武装人员可以轻易越过这条虚拟的边境，来去自如。”议长先生，这就是我的论断：如果我 们真的想要击溃Daesh，我们必须将伊叙两国视同为一。

　　Now Mr. Speaker, I hope the House will bear with me if I direct my closing remarks to my Labor friends and colleagues on this side of the House. As a party, we have always been defined by our internationalism. We believe we have a responsibility one to another. We never have and we never should walk by on the other side of the road. And we are here faced by fascists. Not just their calculated brutality, but their belief that they are superior to every single one of us in this chamber tonight, and all of the people that we represent. They hold us in contempt. They hold our values in contempt. They hold our belief in tolerance and decency in contempt. They hold our democracy, the means by which we will make our decision tonight, in contempt. And what we know about fascists is that they need to be defeated. And it is why, as we have heard tonight, socialists and trade unionists and others joined the International Brigade in the 1930s to fight against Franco. It is why this entire House stood up against Hitler and Mussolini. It is why our party has always stood up against the denial of human rights and for justice. And my view, Mr Speaker, is that we must now confront this evil. It is now time for us to do our bit in Syria. And that is why I ask my colleagues to vote for this motion tonight.

　　现 在，议长先生，我希望各位可以允许我将我的结语说给我这一侧工党的朋友和同僚。作为一个政党，我们一直被我们所坚守着的国际主义信念所定义。我们坚信，我 们相互承载着对于彼此的责任，我们未曾，也绝不应该事不关己地绕行他路。我们现在面对的，是法西斯。并不仅仅因为它们有计划的残暴行径，还有它们自命的高 贵。它们自认为比我们今天在场的每个人都高贵，比我们所代表的所有人民都高贵。它们对我们只有蔑视。对我们的价值观，它们蔑视；对我们宽容和高尚的信念， 它们蔑视；对我们今晚做出决定的方式——民主制度，它们蔑视！而对于法西斯，我们清楚知道的是，它们必须被击溃！正如我们今晚听到的那样，这就是为什么在 1930年代，社会主义者、工会成员以及更多的人加入国际纵队，并肩对抗佛朗哥的统治；这就是为什么当年整个议会奋起反抗希特勒和墨索里尼；这就是为什么 我们的党会永远与对人权价值的否定相抗争，永远为正义而战！议长先生，我的观点是，我们现在必须直面这群恶魔，我们现在就要尽到我们在叙利亚的责任！这就 是为什么，我促请我的同僚们，为这一动议投下赞成的一票。 来源:顶尖悦读

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