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A complicated history underlies the current U.S.-Iraqi showdown. For most of the Cold War, Iraq was a socialist dictatorship closely tied to the Soviet Union, and America used Saudi Arabia and Iran as its main partners in the Gulf. However, this ¡§twin pillars¡¨ approach to the Gulf fell apart in 1979, when Iranian revolutionaries deposed the American-backed shah and took U.S. hostages; Washington had to look elsewhere in the region for friends. Since then, America has tried several Iraq policies: engagement during the 1980s, armed confrontation during the 1990-91 Gulf crisis, containment through the 1990s, and now ¡§regime change¡¨, which makes replacing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein the focus of U.S. policy. Throughout the long lasting event, we could significantly find stratification shown in many different aspects. Although the basic concept of stratification is usually implanted in a society, in this ¡§globalizing era¡¨ we can view the different countries or political parties as different individuals in a ¡§worldwide society¡¨. And I mainly focus on the pattern, causes and consequences of the inequality in military and economic aspects between United States and Iraq , as well as other opposing countries, f