In fact, to acknowledge the obvious in Iraq is also to recognize that there are grounds for hope. As in the former Yugoslavia, the separate entities now emerging may stand a better chance of developing a semblance of representative and eventually democratic governance than if Iraq’s warring communities are forced to live together in the prison house that the country has always been for most of its citizens.
事实上，承认伊拉克的现实也就等于承认还有希望。正如在前南斯拉夫，崛起中的独立实体可能比一直处在战乱樊笼中的伊拉克各社会更有机会表达自己不同的声音，并最终实现民主治理。