Behind the all-too-foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab-Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and beyond. Moreover, there is an acute risk that the power vacuum created in Iraq will fuse the Israeli-Arab conflict, Iraq, and Afghanistan into one regional mega-crisis.
美国稳定行动的结果怎样已经毫无悬念，但在这毫无悬念的结果背后，一场伊拉克内战正在酝酿之中。这场内战很可能演变为阿拉伯－伊朗为争夺伊拉克、波斯湾、黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦和其余地区霸权而一手操纵的傀儡战争。不仅如此，伊拉克的权力真空使得以巴冲突、伊拉克和阿富汗冲突演变成为大规模地区冲突的危险已经迫在眉睫。