Of course, restoring peace and security is taking much more time than expected. With almost daily terrorist attacks, ordinary citizens victimized by shell and gunfire or misconceived bombing, the abuses of Iraqi prisoners, and the hostility of Iraq's Shiites - on whom the US had pinned high hopes for the peace process - American policy is in jeopardy of failure.
当然，重建和平和安全所花费的时间比期望的要多得多。在几乎每天都有恐怖袭击，普通公民不断成为炮弹炮火或误弹袭击的受害者、以及虐俘事件曝光和伊拉克什叶派对抗的情况下，美国对和平进程的高希望正遭受挫折，美国政策处于失败的危险境地。