Wars, as Winston Churchill defined them, are always “a catalogue of blunders.” History’s judgment of the Iraq war will therefore certainly dwell more on whether it has accomplished its strategic objectives of “reconstructing” a highly dysfunctional Middle East in America’s democratic image and consolidating America’s hegemonic position in the region than on its price in blood and money.
丘吉尔曾经把战争定义为“大错的汇集”。历史对于伊拉克战争的评判因此肯定会更多地集中于它是否根据美国的民主构想实现了“重建”破败不堪的中东以及巩固美国在该地区霸权地位的战略目标，而非这一战争的流血和金钱的代价。