If we would end the war and stop wasting lives and hundreds of billions of dollars , we could invest here in America. We must get our fiscal house in order in America. The enormous waste of taxpayer money is mind boggling !! Earmarks or whatever the hell Pelosi is calling them must end. Too much corruption in Washington and in the rest of state gov't too. The next president needs a veto pen with indelible ink. We don't need tax increases but we do need spending discipline. I shutter to think what will happen if the Chinese and the Petro dollar sheiks decide not to buy U.S. treasuries or rollover the debt when it comes due. We would be in financial chaos if that ever happened. It would be economic warfare and we would LOSE. The more we borrow the more we are slittting our economic neck. We need to concentrate on the enormous problems facing us and stop being the big bully around the world !!! If countries want to be democratic, let them fight and create it themselves. We can help and encourage but the dieing for it is not our responsibility. I am fed up with all the money we spend here and abroad. It is an enormous waste. Help Western Europe,( the new French gov't may actually help us), Israel and the nations in our hemisphere but flip everyone else the bird. Time to stop being the biggest patsy on Earth.