The mid-term elections were not a repudiation of the war on terror, but of the conduct of the Iraq war, which the majority of Americans now regard as a horrible distraction.

• 中期选举的结果并非推翻了反恐战争，而是否定了对伊拉克战争的指挥，指挥无方才是被多数美国人视为可怕得心烦意乱的缘由。