<<So you no longer think that wars are for Oil or for profit?>>
Well, the Iraq War is obviously for oil, but I don't think they'll be able to wage any more wars like that. Iran, for example, which has the fourth largest proven reserves in the world, they are going to have to walk away from and leave all that oil in Iranian hands. The next big war will ruin them in the same way that WWI and WWII ruined the U.K. and France as dominant world powers, to the advantage of their creditors: the U.S.A. in their case, China in the U.S.A.'s case.
Incidentally another major consequence of the failure will be the growing influence of Iran in the region, both politically and militarily. These guys, in terms of human rights issues, are exponentially worse than the Americans, so I don't regard this as any major benefit. However, I do believe that the potential for improvement is much better in Iran than it is in the U.S.A. The U.S. is a prisoner of its own militarism and incipient fascism, which seem to have a solid bipartisan foundation, whereas Iran is in a state of flux and new ideas ("change") have a better chance of establishing themselves. I also don't count out the Tudeh, the former Communist Party of Iran, once very extensive and now underground, which I think (or hope) has infiltrated a lot of places, including the religious parties.