对伊战争让美国的"软性力量"付出了昂贵的代价，美国在欧洲国家的平均吸引力下降了约30个百分点，其中包括在英国、西班牙和意大利等支持这场战争的国家。
The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.