We are myopic, both in time and space -- unable to really care about what we cannot see and feel, or about what the future consequences of our actions might be.

无论在时间上还是在空间上我们都很短视，不能真正关注我们不能看到和感受到的东西或我们的行动可能引起的后果。

It was not that the Western countries actively supported it but that they were too scared and occupied with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and its future consequences to actively oppose it.

西方国家并非积极支持它，但由于他们过于担心，且忙于处理俄国侵略阿富汗，积极反对其未来后果。