Both the transformation of Baghdad into a Shiite city and the recognition and support of Iraq’s neighbors for the country’s new political order have been instrumental in stabilizing the country.�These changes are likely to be permanent, and offer hope that the wide-scale violence that afflicted the country between 2003 and 2007 will not return after US forces depart.
巴格达变为一个由什业派人占主要人口的城市，加上其邻国对伊拉克新的政治格局的承认和支持，这两者对伊拉克的稳定都起了作用。这些变化是有可能长久存在的，这使人看到了希望，即伊拉克在2003至2007年间所遭受的大规模暴力事件在美国撤军后不会卷土重来。