在未来十年中，伊拉克可能将成为世界第二大石油出口国，每年产生2000多亿美元收入，同时又在日益被亲伊朗的什叶派独裁政权主导。 这样一个国家容得美国忽视吗？
Could the US ignore a country that in roughly ten years will become the world’s second-largest oil exporter, generating more than $200 billion annually in revenue, while increasingly being dominated by an authoritarian Shia regime that is close to Iran?