PARIS – No sooner did US President Barack Obama welcome home American troops from Iraq and laud that country’s stability and democracy than an unprecedented wave of violence – across Baghdad and elsewhere – revealed the severity of Iraq’s political crisis. Is that crisis an unfortunate exception, or, rather, a symptom of the failure of Obama’s Middle East diplomacy, from Egypt to Afghanistan?
巴黎—美国总统奥巴马欢迎美国驻伊拉克军队回国、盛赞伊拉克实现了稳定和民主的话音未落，那里就出现了前所未有的暴力——不管是巴格达还是别的地方——表明伊拉克陷入了严重的政治危机。这场危机是一个不幸的意外，还是奥巴马的中东外交政策——从埃及到阿富汗——的大溃败的表征？