Maybe, but let's not kid ourselves by claiming that THIS war was based on altruism.

Removing Saddam has only resulted in greater terror alert, greater consensus between US "enemies", increased support for terrorist elements ( it's not easy for a regular Iraqi to believe that the US is less violent than the terrorist extremists.. only diffeence is that the average Iraqi does NOT feel targeted by extremists).

If the US was sincere in wishing to solve the ME crisis, the Iraq war would not have been the method of choice. In fact that US has irreparably damaged its role as arbitrator. No arab or muslim country will ever accept the US as impartial after this war.

So NOW who's gonna try settling the issues? Personally i hope europe takes over. At least Europe has learnt not to be self righteous and arrogant ( at least they have learnt to tone it down)