Naturally, our first thoughts were for the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, the sons and the daughters, who were killed in that horrific attack.
私たちが真っ先に考えたのは、テロで亡くなった人々の父母や兄弟、息子や娘のことだった。

But over the next few days I had a lot of time to think.
I was holed up in my my hotel room because we couldn’t really leave Manhattan.
And one’s thoughts started to drift towards the perpetrators,
those fanatical men who felt that there was no other way to express themselves than to give up their lives making that attack.
しかし、マンハッタンから出られず考える時間ができると、テロの実行犯のことも考えるようになった。
意見を訴える方法は、自爆テロだけだと信じた人々だ。

(略)
And throughout all this, I kept thinking again, “What about those guys in those planes?”
Not thinking with sympathy,  but rather just following a military adage that I remember from, but rather just following a military adage that I remember from, I guess, when I was training as a soldier at high school in the 1960s.
戦争の間、私は飛行機を乗っ取った人々のことを考えていた。
同情からではなく、軍隊の格言に沿ってのことだ。
高校時代、軍事訓練を受けた時に、格言を習った。

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And the adage went something like, “If you want to defeat your enemy, you’ve got to know them.”
So it always occurred to me that if we were going to defeat terrorism, the only way was to get an understanding of the terrorist mind.
“敵を倒すこには、まず敵を知ること”
テロをなくすにはテロリストの考えを理解する以外に方法はない。

If you compound that with being a police officer in South Africa, where you have the state essentially throwing out the rule of law,  throwing out due process, encouraging its employees to engage in torture in order to exact confessions or get information about their enemy, the ANC, you’er asking them to compromise themselves morally.
ただでさえ大変なのに南アフリカでは、さらに厳しい。法の規制や適正な手続を無視し、自白をえるために拷問を強要される。ANCについての情報を得るため道徳を無視するよう命じられるんだ。

You can’t torture a person and walk out of that room with a clean soul. It’s just impossible.
拷問をして後ろめたくない人などいないよ。

And having to shoulder this burden in secret.
They couldn’t seek out psychiatric help, they couldn’t go home to their wives and talk about this stuff. This was all a secret amongst brothers.
重い責務を負い精神科の助けも得られない、妻に話すこともできず警官仲間だけが頼りだ。

And I asked some of them, “If you know things were wrong, why didn’t you leave?”
And they said, “Well, we were at war and we couldn’t leave.
“To leave would be to go AWOL to bring shame upon your family,
“and to abandon your country completely.”
They said, “We would not have been able to work in this country again, if w were to quit our jobs as officers.”
“なぜ辞めなかった？”と質問すると、彼らは”戦線から離脱できない”
“逃げることは一族の恥だし、国を捨てることになる”
“警官を辞めたら南アフリカでは再就職も不可能だ”

Meeting them now, in retrospect, you know, I looked into the eyes of many of these middle-aged men, who had shouldered this burden for so many years, who, when apartheid fell, when the women learned of what there people were doing, many divorces happened, found respite in alcoholism and self-hatred.
今、中年になった元警官たちに会い、その目をみると長年背負ってきた重荷が見える。
アバルトヘイトが終わり妻たちが実態をしると、多くの離婚が発生し、彼らは酒に逃げ、自分を責めた。

Worst of all, they were the ones that were considered by society at large, and the world at large, as the bad guys, when in fact the people that were in levels of the government that were encouraging this behavior did not have to go before Truth and Reconciliation Commission, retired in mansions with large pensions, and one of them even won the Novel Peace Prize.
悪いことに警官は社会、そして世界から悪者扱いされている。
だがこのような拷問を彼らに命じた政府高官たちは、真実和解委員会に出ることもなく、年金をもらっている。ノーベル賞受賞者もいる。

There’s a great bitterness in these people towards their lot in life, how they were abandoned by their own government, and how they ha trough their sense of duty, compromised themselves morally.
警官たちは政府に捨てられた不運を嘆いている。彼らは国に対する義務感から自分の良心を殺した。