@NahnCee:
“Ahem. America is sort of going bankrupt back home.”

Excellent emotive vent/lament, NahnCee.

But have you considered an even more costly event than what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Like a nuclear attack on one or more American cities?
It would make current outlays look like peanuts.
We’ve incurred our big costs with Iraq and they should start dropping very soon.
I agree about dealing with Iran. We need to fix that problem before they go nuclear.
And, in my estimation, we need to be there in Afghanistan and whomping on terrorists in Waziristan and places like that.
But Iran is the key. And the Wahabis.
Taking a longer term view we need to be competing with the Wahabis in providing education in areas where madrassahs are the only avenue extant.
Teach kids real skills and Koran spouting fools would soon look like the losers they are.