单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that the temptation which the Bush administration has increasingly succumbed to comes from ______.

A、 Washington's inability to run a global order driven by military action and the fear of terror- ism.
B、 Washington's vacillating between appealing to law and undermining it.
C、 a misunderstanding of the consequences of global interdependence and the character of democracy.
D、 American empire's unsustainablility.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[精解] 本题是一个推断题，考生要从语法和文章中心的双重角度来寻找答案。
A．华盛顿不可能推行一个以军事行动和对恐怖主义的恐惧为主导的国际秩序。
B．华盛顿在求助于法律或破坏法律这两者之间摇摆不定。
C．对国际合作的重要性和民主特质的误解。
D．美帝国是不能持久的。
注意到这里的选项A，B，D 都犯了因果倒置的错误，A，B，D 都是C 的结果，而且C 是直接导致A，B，D 的原因。