反特朗普　共和党外交政策界联署斥损国家　有党人忧正中下怀

至少95名共和党外交政策事务要员发表联署信，矢言反对地产大亨特朗普，并指他的政见会危害美国安全。特朗普是共和党总统提名人选战角逐群雄中，目前最有望出线的参选人。今次联署信，也是特朗普与党内主流派嫌隙日益尖锐化的最新迹象。

联署信经由“War on the Rocks”的博客网站贴出，联署信说：“特朗普先生自己的言论让我们归结，他当总统，行使职权任事会让美国更不安全，损伤我们在世界的地位。”

这封公开信指出：“此外，他认为可用总统职权对付批判异己的过分观点，更是对美国公民自由赤裸祼的威胁。”

联署信的签署人包括佐里克（Robert Zoellick，世银前总裁、美国前副国务卿）、美国国土安全部前部长谢尔托夫（Michael Chertoff），以及扎赫姆（Dov Zakheim，小布什总统任内的国防部高官）等。
这些联署人代表了共和党外交政策圈中间路线派和新保守主义势力，在小布什两任总统期间，他们全都主张美国须保有强大的国际角色，并长袖善舞发挥其影响力。扎赫姆说：“特朗普需要被阻止。他的话正在国外被当真。他已经惹怒了我们在中美洲、欧洲、东亚和中东地区的盟友。这不是美国领导人该有的做法。”

共和党外交政策界的许多成员除了担心特朗普的移民观点和对贸易协定的敌视态度，还担心如果特朗普上台，其政府会损害美国与日本、韩国和德国等众多盟国的关系。他们也担心特朗普对俄罗斯领导人普京“太同情”。

金融时报指出，这次批评行动的目的，是推动人们关注特朗普及其外交政策言论，活动发起者是前布什政府国务院高官科恩(Eliot Cohen)，以及退役海军军官麦格拉思(Bryan McGrath)，他曾在罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)2012年竞选总统期间担任其幕僚。

一些共和党人虽然与这封公开信看法相同，但对此次抨击行动持保留观点。他们表示这封信只会助长特朗普的竞选势头，为他提供更多弹药，让他得以宣称他是唯一愿意改变华盛顿现状的参选人。金融时报引述一位富有影响力的共和党人说：“签署这封信的都是共和党的建制派，特朗普反对的正是这群人。所以这封信会令特朗普很开心。”

以下为联署信英文全文：

We the undersigned, members of the Republican national security community, represent a broad spectrum of opinion on America’s role in the world and what is necessary to keep us safe and prosperous. We have disagreed with one another on many issues, including the Iraq war and intervention in Syria. But we are united in our opposition to a Donald Trump presidency. Recognizing as we do, the conditions in American politics that have contributed to his popularity, we nonetheless are obligated to state our core objections clearly:

His vision of American influence and power in the world is wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle. He swings from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence.

His advocacy for aggressively waging trade wars is a recipe for economic disaster in a globally connected world.

His embrace of the expansive use of torture is inexcusable.

His hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric undercuts the seriousness of combatting Islamic radicalism by alienating partners in the Islamic world making significant contributions to the effort. Furthermore, it endangers the safety and Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of American Muslims.

Controlling our border and preventing illegal immigration is a serious issue, but his insistence that Mexico will fund a wall on the southern border inflames unhelpful passions, and rests on an utter misreading of, and contempt for, our southern neighbor.

Similarly, his insistence that close allies such as Japan must pay vast sums for protection is the sentiment of a racketeer, not the leader of the alliances that have served us so well since World War II.

His admiration for foreign dictators such as Vladimir Putin is unacceptable for the leader of the world’s greatest democracy.

He is fundamentally dishonest. Evidence of this includes his attempts to deny positions he has unquestionably taken in the past, including on the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Libyan conflict. We accept that views evolve over time, but this is simply misrepresentation.

His equation of business acumen with foreign policy experience is false. Not all lethal conflicts can be resolved as a real estate deal might, and there is no recourse to bankruptcy court in international affairs.

Mr. Trump’s own statements lead us to conclude that as president, he would use the authority of his office to act in ways that make America less safe, and which would diminish our standing in the world. Furthermore, his expansive view of how presidential power should be wielded against his detractors poses a distinct threat to civil liberty in the United States. Therefore, as committed and loyal Republicans, we are unable to support a Party ticket with Mr. Trump at its head. We commit ourselves to working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office.