What is needed is a conscious, deliberate return of US foreign policy to multilateralism. This mental turnaround is, indeed, essential if things are to improve, because the situation in Iraq represents, above all, a defeat of America’s unilateralist orientation.
美国所需要的应该是自觉、有意识地将美国的外交政策回归到多边主义。如果要使情况发生好转，这种意识上的转变就是必须的，因为不管怎样，伊拉克的局势是美国单边主义定位的一次失败。