But once the occupiers have left, the chances that the Iraqis will entrench and cherish a stable, federal, pluralist democracy must still be rated at less than even.

• 但一旦这些占领者离开，伊拉克人能够建立并呵护一个稳定的、联邦制的、多元主义的民主制度的机会肯定仍少于一半。