But once a state disintegrates, as happened in Yugoslavia, no constitutional formulations can save it. Constitutions works only if all sides have an interest in operating within the proposed framework – and this obviously is not the case in Iraq.
当然，这样的原则是有用的。可一旦某个国家分裂，就如南斯拉夫的情况那样，任何一种立宪秘方也无力回天。宪法有效的前提是在提议的框架下行事符合相关各方的利益—而伊拉克显然不符合这一情况。