在美国,人们普遍认为,联合国是推动美国问题的众多潜在工具之一,我们必须决定某个特定问题最好通过联合国还是通过其他机制来解决。
(In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.)