I posted something in a similar vein a while ago. Today I found this while searching for articles on Iraqi Army strategy (is there one?).

http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper644.html

It seems that indeed this war has unsettled some countries who now worry about their national interests conflciting with those of the USA and their only means of defense being large stocks of nuclear weapons. Given that this analysis comes from someone in India, which is already a nuclear power, does this mean the start of a new cold war?